“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy vowed Saturday morning to refuse Democratic demands in the GOP’s push for more aid to small businesses,” Politico reports.
From a joint statement: “Republicans reject Democrats’ reckless threat to continue blocking job-saving funding unless we renegotiate unrelated programs which are not in similar peril.”
Playbook: “So, will there be a negotiation, or not? Will the small-business funding ride alone, or will it ride with a wagon of other spending priorities. The small-business program runs out of money April 17, and the two sides seem to be saying completely different things: Pelosi and Schumer want a bigger bill, McConnell wants a narrow one and the White House — led by Mnuchin — is caught in the middle, seeming to give different impressions to different sides.”
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