Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell removes a face mask to address reporters on Capitol Hill amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Congressional leaders and the White House are inching closer to striking a bipartisan deal that will replenish the depleted small business loan program and provide funding to hospitals struggling under the-- with a debate over testing emerging as one of the final areas of dispute.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell takes off a face mask to give brief remarks to members of the news media at the Senate carriage entrance on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 20, 2020.Testing supply shortages across the country have prompted Democrats to demand a national testing program to standardize the process across the country.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks at a press conference on Dec. 16, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Roughly $60 billion of that amount would go towards smaller, minority, and women-owned businesses, which Democrats had been calling for, according to sources. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin walks to the meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer during negotiations on a coronavirus disease relief package on Capitol in Washington, March 23, 2020.
“We could have been done yesterday, but the Democrats continue to hold up, even though we have agreed to all the numbers,” McCarthy, R-Calif., said Monday morning on Fox News.
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