The U.S. Senate will likely not vote on a fifth coronavirus relief bill before a two-week July 4 recess, reports The Hill.
"If you look right now at the schedule for the balance of the June work period is DOD, great outdoors, a couple circuit judges. ... I don't know how you can wedge that in there," Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Republican senator, told reporters.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., on Monday said there was “no reason” the Senate could not pass the bill before the break.
“There is no reason that we cannot respond to this moment of national crisis with vigorous and sustained action, with purposeful action and bipartisan effort on the COVID pandemic and long-simmering issues of police violence and racial justice. We must do both,” Schumer said from the Senate floor.
“There are four remaining weeks before July 4. The time for waiting is gone,” he added.
The new bill – the HEROES Act – consists of another $3 trillion in economic aid for hard-pushed American workers suffering as a result of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Republican senators, though, have made it pretty clear that the legislation would be “dead on arrival.”
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