House Democrats have pushed through a $3-trillion-plus coronavirus relief and recovery package that includes a modest amount of construction-related funding along with provisions aimed at shoring up troubled multiemployer pension plans and increasing flexibility for the popular Paycheck Protection loan program
The measure, which the House approved on May 15 by a narrow 208-199 vote, faces deep Republican opposition—only one GOP lawmaker voted in favor of it. It has next to no chance of moving in the Senate—Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) slammed the legislation in a May 14 televised interview as “a parade of absurdities that can hardly be taken seriously.”