Republicans sour on bolstered unemployment benefits
by Susan Ferrechio
| May 24, 2020 12:01 AM
House and Senate Republicans are growing increasingly critical of a decision to increase unemployment benefits by $600 per month to help blunt the economic damage caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
Republicans planning a new round of economic aid appear poised to block an extension of those additional benefits, despite a push from Democrats to provide the extra money, which now expires in August, until next year.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, informed his rank and file this week he did not support extending the bolstered unemployment insurance in the next round of aid. President Trump has said he is also opposed.
“This will not be in the next bill,†McConnell told GOP lawmakers in a conference call this week, according to a person who participated.
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