Democrats are playing up the Republicans’ inability to finish legislative work on things like the Zika virus and a Puerto Rico rescue package, and are hoping to use those delays to paint the GOP as the party that can’t govern in the months before the 2016 elections.

For some of these issues, the delays aren’t long, and Republican leaders insist they’ll be able to complete the work in May or soon after. But it’s enough of a delay to give Democrats a new political argument.

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