Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is pouring cold water on a quick deal on a fourth coronavirus relief package, calling a laundry list of ideas floated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as "premature." "She needs to stand down on the notion that we're going to go along with taking advantage of the crisis to do things that are unrelated to the crisis," McConnell told The Washington Post.
McConnell added that "what's really happening here is, she's looking for a way to jam us."
McConnell's comments come as Pelosi has quickly pivoted to brainstorming a fourth coronavirus bill less than a week after Congress passed the roughly $2.2 trillion stimulus bill. Pelosi, in a statement to the newspaper, argued that she hoped leadership in both chambers could work together but that victims of the virus "cannot wait."
Some of the ideas being floated by Pelosi, including a massive infrastructure plan and reversing the 2017 tax law's $10,000 cap on the state and local tax (SALT), have been panned by McConnell.
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