Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Wednesday that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) showed “absolutely no interest” in trying to negotiate a bipartisan agreement on the COVID-19 relief bill, calling into question the sincerity of the pleas for unity from President Joe Biden and the desire of Democrats to work with Republican members of Congress.
Collins made the remarks after Schumer said in a Tuesday interview on CNN that Democrats moved to pass the American Rescue Plan via budget reconciliation, a process that allowed them to sidestep the Senate filibuster and so not require any GOP buy-in, because Republicans were not negotiating in good faith.
