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Pelosi, McConnell Set to Collide on Follow-Up to $3 Trillion Aid

  • Big-ticket aid for states and localities moves to forefront
  • Republicans push back on swelling list of Democratic demands
Nancy Pelosi wears a protective face covering while walking to the House Chamber in Washington, D.C., on April 23.
Nancy Pelosi wears a protective face covering while walking to the House Chamber in Washington, D.C., on April 23.Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg
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Congress has pumped out almost $3 trillion to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, mostly on a bipartisan basis. But there is a bruising election-year confrontation ahead over the next, and perhaps final, round of aid for the economy.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is gathering a long and expensive wish list from her fellow Democrats that would expand the social safety net as well as provide at least $500 billion to struggling state and local governments.