As the first GOP top Senator to comment on the President’s call for the $600 stimulus increase, Sen. Roy Blunt said that it would be “a mistake” to reopen the bill that’s taken months to be established.
“There’s been some apparent misunderstanding about what’s in the regular appropriating bill and what’s in the COVID relief bill, and generally the regular appropriating bill includes things the administration asked for,” Sen. Blunt said.
“It took us a long time to get to where we are. I think reopening that bill would be a mistake.”
The top official added that the best way out of the deadlock is “for the President to sign the bill, and I still hope that’s what he decides.”
Blunt insisted that even if House and its Democratic majority agreed to raise the $600 relief checks, the GOP would not concede.
“If the Democrats did that, I would be surprised if we dealt with it,” the Missouri Republican said.
