But the Senate GOP bill has failed once before, and that Trump himself now says is too puny. Even the architect of the larger Senate measure, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., isn’t claiming the vote will advance the ball. The last coronavirus relief package, the $1.8 trillion bipartisan CARES Act, passed in March by an overwhelming margin as the economy went into lockdown amid fear and uncertainty about the virus. For months she has been promising a COVID relief package of more than $2 trillion stuffed with Obama-era stimulus ideas. Delays in coronavirus aid come as the recovery from this spring’s economic shutdown is slowing and as the massive stimulus effects of the $1.8 trillion March relief measure wear off.

Source: Hindustan Times October 19, 2020 11:25 UTC