From Daily Kos: McConnell sets unrealistic timeline for next inadequate coronavirus response bill
By JOAN McCARTER
Senators and congressional staff are meeting Friday to work on the next phase of coronavirus stimulus in a process that puts a whole bunch of staffers, administration personnel, and congressional leadership in rooms together to negotiate, against all Centers for Disease Control recommendations, and makes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's goal of having a bill ready for a vote on Monday questionable.
McConnell's goal seems to be ramming through the inadequate plan introduced Thursday night by forcing Democrats to act on a bill that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer have said it "not at all pro-worker and instead puts corporations way ahead of workers." He could be attempting to jam them through, but has a lot of work to even get his full Republican conference on board. Roll Call reports that at this point, it's not "even clear how strongly the Trump administration supported the Senate GOP bill, which offers cash payments to families, loans to struggling industries and help for small businesses and hospitals, among other things."