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WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 12: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to members … [+]<\/span> of the press after the weekly Senate Republican Policy Luncheon at Hart Senate Office Building May 12, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Senate Republicans held the weekly luncheon to discuss their agenda. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Senate will pass another stimulus package; what will be included in it?<\/p>\n

The House passed The Heroes Act Friday. This bill provides, among many other things<\/a>, a second round of $1,200 stimulus checks and hazard pay for essential frontline workers. Will the Senate agree to include these two provisions in the bill it eventually passes? I say \u201ceventually\u201d because all signs lean toward the conclusion that Republicans will end up negotiating with Democrats to pass yet another stimulus package.<\/p>\n

Congress has already passed three different<\/a> stimulus packages in response to this pandemic and, at the end of the day, the Senate will sign on and work with the House to pass a fourth one. The Republican Senate will do this for the same reason the Democratic House just passed The Heroes Act\u2014the economy. But regardless of the reasons\u2014and despite all the bluster\u2014all signs lean toward another stimulus relief package getting through Congress. For now, both parties will gripe and complain, but then they will negotiate and compromise in order to work out a deal and inject more stimulus money into this declining\u2014or at best stalled\u2014economy.<\/p>\n

What will the Senate include in its stimulus package?<\/h2>\n

The question isn\u2019t will there be another stimulus deal, the question is what will be included in the deal when it\u2019s done?<\/p>\n

Huge majorities of Americans want more stimulus checks<\/a>. Essential workers, the ones we now call American heroes, are still waiting for\u2014and should get\u2014hazard pay. State and local governments are telling anyone who will listen of their dire financial predicament<\/a> and critical need for stimulus money to deliver basic and essential services. Far too many businesses are still shut down or only partially open. Real unemployment<\/a> has reached depression-error levels, and corporate bankruptcies have begun. So the real conversation Senators are having right now is really more about what they<\/em> will do rather than will they<\/em> do anything more at all.<\/p>\n

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That<\/em> bill may be dead on arrival, but another will get worked out.<\/h2>\n

The economy is bad<\/a>\u2014dire even\u2014and everyone paying attention knows it, including Senate Leader McConnell and other Republicans. In response, the House put forward and passed The Heroes Act which provides a second round of $1,200 stimulus checks and $200 billion in hazard pay for essential workers. Senate Majority Leader McConnell slammed it as \u201cdead on arrival.\u201d But not so fast. If all you were hearing is that he said the House\u2019s bill was dead on arrival, you might be inclined to believe that the Senate has no plans of moving forward with another stimulus relief package. You\u2019d be wrong.<\/p>\n

Despite all the bluster, Leader McConnell knows\u2014just like Speaker Pelosi did\u2014that another stimulus package is necessary, and McConnell said so Thursday on Fox News, \u201cWe all believe that another bill probably is going to be necessary.\u201d He went on to say that he wasn\u2019t yet prepared to commit to any precise timeline on when the Senate would take any action, but he acknowledged they will indeed need to take more action.<\/p>\n

Americans want more stimulus checks.<\/h2>\n

Republicans in the Senate can work from a blank slate as they start their process, but they will be presented with The Heroes Act<\/a> that the House passed Friday. The Senate has to decide whether it agrees to do what the House has already done and approve the following provisions, present a modified version on stimulus checks, or refuse additional stimulus checks altogether. This is what the House passed.<\/p>\n