McConnell to Try Again to Force Vote on Virus Stimulus Plan

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell scheduled a vote Monday to try again to advance a $2 trillion stimulus plan after Republicans and Democrats failed to engineer a quick jolt to a sinking economy amid the rising coronavirus death toll, plunging financial markets and dire predictions of a deep recession.

The Senate will take a vote at about about 1:30 p.m. Washington time aimed at getting the legislation to the floor. But the chamber’s Republican majority can’t do it without the votes of Democrats.

WATCH: A $2 trillion stimulus plan is held up in Congress. Bloomberg’s Kevin Cirilli reports.

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“Why are the American people still waiting?” McConnell said on the Senate floor before scheduling the ...