Stalled coronavirus relief negotiations hit new obstacle: State aid

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Stalled coronavirus relief negotiations hit new obstacle: State aid
The stalemate puts at risk potentially trillions of dollars in aid for families, businesses and the US economy
By Megan Henney | Fox News

    White House officials and Democratic leaders remained at an impasse Monday over another coronavirus relief package, with aid for cash-strapped state and local governments emerging as the latest obstacle in negotiations.

The two sides are at odds over whether states should receive additional funding in the next round of emergency aid -- and if so, how much.

Negotiators are trying to close the divide between the Senate Republicans' $1 trillion HEALS Act, which includes no new funding for states, and the House's $3.4 trillion HEROES Act, which allocates about $1 trillion in new funding for state and local governments.


The stalemate puts at risk potentially trillions of dollars in aid for families, businesses and the U.S. economy, including a fresh round of $1,200 stimulus checks, extra unemployment aid for millions of out-of-work Americans, $100 billion to help reopen schools and relief for cash-strapped state and local governments.

There were no signs of a détente on Monday, with each party blaming the other for the stalled-out discussions.

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[Smokin Joe]

100 Billion to reopen schools? What happened to all that money they should have saved over actually operating schools last year?

[libertybele]

100 Billion to reopen schools? What happened to all that money they should have saved over actually operating schools last year?

Well in looking at my county, each student was given a notebook computer to distance/virtual learn and 1 meal a day was provided to them. It is my understanding that teachers were still paid. In addition each child received an EBT card.  Our county has requested 1M to reopen schools safely.

[Smokin Joe]

Well in looking at my county, each student was given a notebook computer to distance/virtual learn and 1 meal a day was provided to them. It is my understanding that teachers were still paid. In addition each child received an EBT card.  Our county has requested 1M to reopen schools safely.

Here, students were expected to provide their own chromebook (or better). Some were available to rent if you couldn't afford to buy one, and I would imagine others were provided to those who genuinely could not get one otherwise. That was well before COVID, so that part was already in place. A great deal of classwork was already done on, and turned in via the machines, even to the point of not having hard copy texts, ALL BEFORE COVID.
For COVID, The buildings were basically mothballed, and one administrator I spoke with said they'd been 'working from home, maybe one or two days per week physically in the building, while teaching was all done online. Cafeteria facilities and a host of other spaces in the schools were basically NOT USED. Put a coffee pot in the office, pack a lunch. Have the guy come in every couple weeks and stock the pop machines, and it should all be good to go.