Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that the “most contentious” issues such as state and local funding or liability protections should be set aside by Congress members so lawmakers can reach a stimulus deal agreement by the end of the year.
“Any kind of liability relief they [Democrats] instinctively, like a pavlovian response, object to,” McConnell said at a news conference on Tuesday. “Why don’t we set aside the two obviously most contentious issues? We know we’re going to be confronted with another request after the first of the year. We'll live to fight those another day and pass the things we agree on.”
