Lawmakers are set to start returning to Washington on Monday nowhere near an agreement on the next coronavirus relief bill.The boneheads are facing trillions in federal losses, mostly due to their own bungles from the past. Nancy is inserting her priors. Stupid small states have earmarked themselves into a disaster. The normal result is to throw the bums out and try another batch, but state capitals should know, they be frigged if they send us the same ignorant batches. Trump is not helping, this is way beyond the capability of him or his staff.
Instead, they are facing a quick pile up of potential obstacles to a deal as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offer “red lines” and competing priorities for the next piece of legislation.
GOP senators are signaling that they don’t expect a quick agreement as they work to fine tune the implementation of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus package passed in late March.
“I don't think we're ready to talk about what the next step is going to be yet,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), an adviser to McConnell, told reporters.
Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.), the No. 3 Senate Republican, added that it was “too early to go down that line.”
But it is too late, the defaults are coming and the Senators are better taking the long view. What kind of Fed contract do they want after the default agreement?
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