McConnell: Next Pandemic Stimulus Bill Won’t Extend Enhanced Unemployment Benefits

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) speaks to members of the news media while walking into his office on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 17, 2020. Tom Brenner/Reuters

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said the next CCP virus bill will not extend enhanced unemployment benefits that entail an extra $600 per week.

The benefits, which were included in the CARES Act passed in March, “will not be in the next bill,” he told other lawmakers in a conference call.