McConnell hits pause button on Pelosi plan for new economic relief package

Published March 31, 2020 3:53pm ET



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Congress should await the impact of a new $2.2 trillion economic relief package before drafting another spending bill to respond to the coronavirus outbreak.

“I think first, we need to see what the effect of the current bill is,” McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said Tuesday on the Hugh Hewitt radio program.

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