Senate Republicans dismissed the House's new stimulus bill as a nonstarter after its release, balking at its $3 trillion price tag and warning that any future aid package — if there is one at all — won't come until after the Memorial Day recess
"After the recess," Sen. Roy Blunt, a Republican from Missouri, told CNN on Tuesday when pressed on when the Senate would begin serious talks about another stimulus bill. "Let's fix what was missed last time rather than just adding more money," Sen. James Lankford, an Oklahoma Republican, told CNN.Republicans, however, find themselves caught between conflicting political realities.
Other Republicans have been looking for a way to incentivize more workers to return to the workplace after the increase in unemployment benefits Congress passed in March made it more lucrative for some low-wage workers to stay on unemployment rather than return to their jobs. Sen.
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