Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are at an impasse over a new coronavirus relief bill. Unfortunately, their short-term political interests are not necessarily aligned with the public interest. Ideological differences can reinforce the political will of constituents. But at moments like this, they can also get in the way of an agreement that is in everyone’s interest.

So much is at stake that it’s worth agreeing to a few common-sense policies that are neither conservative nor liberal, neither Republican nor Democratic.