, Columnist
Covid Relief Makes Sense for Republicans, Too
The economic case for aid was always strong, and now so is the political case.
Republicans can do better than that.
Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg
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Congress now has roughly one week to come to an agreement on a Covid relief package, a subject it has been debating since April. For most of that time, House Democrats insisted on a bill that had no chance of passing the Senate. Senate Republicans, meanwhile, struggled to find consensus on any proposal at all.
Fortunately, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week finally abandoned her caucus’s bloated multi-trillion-dollar package in favor of a $908 billion proposal offered by a bipartisan group of senators. Republicans should take the deal.