What Republicans and Democrats want in the next stimulus package

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) listens as President Donald Trump talks to reporters on July 20, 2020, in the Oval Office. | Doug Mills/Getty Images Here’s what lawmakers agree — and disagree — on. Congress doesn’t have much time as it weighs a compromise over the next phase of coronavirus stimulus. With expanded unemployment insurance benefits sunsetting after July 31, lawmakers are under immense pressure to approve an extension — along with a number of other stimulus provisions — before 33 million people find themselves without the federal money they have relied on for months to pay their bills. Republicans and Democrats are on track to begin negotiating a new stimulus bill...

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