Coronavirus Relief Talks Hit Impasse on Capitol Hill
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We ran the numbers: There are 1857 news articles covering this topic. 45% (844) are left leaning, 41% (758) center, 14% (255) right leaning.
On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump said his administration and Democrats in Congress were far apart in their efforts to come together on a coronavirus relief bill. While left-leaning articles highlight that each side said the other was to blame, right-leaning articles highlight that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that Democrats were trying to “sabotage” the coronavirus bill.
The Washington Post published a left-leaning article highlighting that each side said the other was to blame for the failure, but either way, the unemployed will pay the greatest price at a moment of deep uncertainty and fear. While Democrats want to spend three times more than Republicans on the overall bill, some Republicans don’t want to spend any more money at all.
A centrist article by Reuters reports that Trump accused Democrats of not taking care of Americans with their proposals. Trump suggested he was not in a hurry to strike a deal.
Fox News published a right-leaning article highlighting that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that Democrats were trying to “sabotage” the coronavirus bill currently being worked on by lawmakers for political reasons the same way they stymied Republicans’ police reform efforts last month. McConnell stated that Democrats would “rather keep political issues alive than find bipartisan ways to resolve them.”