Short-term punt seen likely for spending bills, coronavirus aid - Roll Call

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Still, Republicans would not necessarily be upset if appropriations were kicked into next year, delaying Biden’s other priorities. And Pelosi pointedly told reporters Friday that Democrats’ leverage will be enhanced once Biden is in the Oval Office.

“Whether you’re in the minority or majority, if the president is of your party, you have more power,” Pelosi said. “And I think that that’s what Mitch McConnell is going to find out now, that whether he’s in the majority or the minority, not having Donald Trump in the White House is going to change his leverage and that dynamic.”

A large-scale COVID-19 package is almost sure to wait until Biden takes over as president.

Republicans and Democrats are no closer to a compromise than they were before the election, when there was some incentive for all involved to get an agreement. McConnell said Thursday he supports another package, but one similar to a $519 billion bill Senate Republicans proposed last month rather than “something dramatically larger.”

Pelosi, who has pushed for a $2 trillion-plus package, doubled down at a postelection press conference, saying a “smaller package” envisioned by Republicans “does not appeal to me at all because they still have not agreed to crush the virus.”

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