republicans are saying Democrats won't pass their Covid relief bill, but the republicans won't vote for a better bill from the Democrats.

https://news.yahoo.com/senate-vote-another-skinny-stimulus-163042748.html

Summer Lin
,Miami Herald•October 14, 2020

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate will vote on another coronavirus relief bill after lawmakers have struggled for months to pass a follow-up to the CARES Act.

McConnell, a Republican, said the plan will give “roughly $500 billion” in aid, including money for schools and health care, unemployment benefits, and funding for the Paycheck Protection Program, according to Roll Call. The proposal will also have protections for businesses, health care providers and schools from coronavirus-related lawsuits — but it has little chance of passing the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives and becoming law.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, called the $1.8 trillion plan “insufficient” while Senate Republicans also panned the proposal for costing too much.

Democrats and Republicans have struggled to agree on a follow-up relief package to the CARES Act that went into law in March and provided most Americans with $1,200 payments during the coronavirus pandemic.

House Democrats passed another coronavirus relief bill earlier this month but had no chance of advancing it through the Republican-controlled Senate. The $2.2 trillion package, an updated version of the Heroes Act, would have provided another round of stimulus checks, funding for state and local governments, and weekly $600 unemployment benefits.

Pelosi slammed CNN host Wolf Blitzer in an interview Tuesday when he pressed on why she wouldn’t accept the White House’s offer.

“What makes me amused, if it weren’t so sad, is how you all think that you know more about the suffering of the American people than those of us who are elected by them to represent them at that table,” Pelosi said.