The slimmed-down proposal includes $105 billion for schools and a two-year tax credit for school choice, as well as $29 billion for vaccines and $16 billion for testing. It does not include another round of direct payment checks to Americans.
This will be the first formal vote of the Senate on more sweeping coronavirus relief since March.
The proposal would also provide additional funding for the paycheck protection program with the possibility of loan forgiveness for small businesses. "Senate Republicans appear dead-set on another bill which doesn’t come close to addressing the problems and is headed nowhere," Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote in a joint statement Tuesday."If anyone doubts McConnell’s true intent is anything but political, just look at the bill. This proposal is laden with poison pills Republicans know Democrats would never support.
Democrats for weeks have decried any sort of"piecemeal" approach to COVID-19 relief. Pelosi called the previous $1 trillion proposal"anorexic." And in a letter to his caucus on Thursday, Schumer shut down any hope of Democratic support of the proposal McConnell introduced Tuesday.
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