This is terrible news if you need a second stimulus check

[Andy Meek]

• Congressional leaders and President Trump have been unable to reach an agreement on a new coronavirus stimulus bill that includes funding for a second stimulus check.
• A bill had been negotiated for weeks among Republicans and Democrats in the Senate, but talks collapsed at the end of last week.
• President Trump signed a flurry of executive orders in recent days that try to take unilateral action on some of what would have been in a stimulus bill.

A new coronavirus relief package was supposed to have gotten congressional approval by now, a legislative package that would have included an assortment of much-needed benefits like a second stimulus check for most Americans to try and give a sorely needed boost to the economy. Instead, talks collapsed in the Senate leading into the weekend, President Trump signed a flurry of executive orders that ostensibly approve various pieces of what would have been in a stimulus bill, and on Monday he thumbed his nose at House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer -- "Where have they been for the last 4 weeks," he asked rhetorically in his tweet.

It all sort of calls to mind Mercutio's dying curse levied against both the Montagues and Capulets ("A plague on both your houses!"), in light of the fact that the never-ending war between both parties has resulted in a second stimulus check of at least $1,200 for Americans hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic being but the latest casualty of the perennial dysfunction in the nation's capital.

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