Speaker Pelosi insisted that congressional efforts to deliver coronavirus relief are not finished, saying there will be yet another major legislative package after Congress passed $484 billion in aid for small businesses, hospitals and testing this week
"There will be a bill, and it will be expensive," Pelosi said at a news conference in response to Republican concerns about advancing another bill.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cautioned this week that lawmakers need to take into account"the amount of debt we're adding to our country and the future impact of that.
"Read MoreLayoffs and spending cuts loom as coronavirus wallops state and city budgetsMcConnell has suggested Democrats are trying to get the federal government to essentially bail out state and local governments for bad decisions they made related to public pension obligations and other sources of expensive debt.
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