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        <title><![CDATA[Senate Republicans Criticize GOP’s Own Coronavirus Relief Bill: ‘We Have Unity in Disagreement’]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Senate Republicans criticized their party’s own coronavirus relief bill in public comments and during a private lunch with Senate GOP leadership on Tuesday.</p><p>The disagreements could make negotiations with House Democrats over the legislation even more tricky, with enhanced federal unemployment benefits set to end on July 31 and a moratorium on evictions for renters already expired. The GOP legislation is set to cost $1 trillion overall, with additional $1,200 checks to be sent to American taxpayers and enhanced federal unemployment benefits of $200 per week.</p><p>However, the bill also includes $1.75 billion for a new building to house FBI headquarters, and some senators indicated that they weren’t yet sure what the bill even contains.</p><p>“We have unity in disagreement,” Senator John Kennedy (R., La.) <strong>reportedly said</strong> during the GOP lunch. Later in the day Kennedy quipped, “I’m not going to vote for a bill in the name of unity when I don’t know what’s in the damn thing.”</p><form class="form-newsletter" data-component="newsletter" data-success="Thank you for subscribing!" data-error="There was a problem signing you up, please try again."> <input name="latest_sub" type="hidden" value="1" /></p><p><label for="nloptin-5f20a11c06082">GET THE CAPITAL LETTER</label></p><p>A weekly digest on business and economics from an NR sensibility.</p><fieldset class="inline-newsletter-subscribe__group"><input id="nloptin-5f20a11c06082" class="inline-newsletter-subscribe__email-input" name="email" type="email" placeholder="Email Address" /><br /> <input name="source" type="hidden" value="WEB" /><br /> <input name="newsletter_override" type="hidden" value="cap_sub, cap_inarticle, article_inarticle_cap_green_072720" /><br /> <input name="location" type="hidden" value="widget" /><br /> <input id="_wpnonce" name="_wpnonce" type="hidden" value="776379ab21" /><input name="_wp_http_referer" type="hidden" value="/news/senate-republicans-criticize-gops-own-coronavirus-relief-bill-we-have-unity-in-disagreement/" /> <input class="inline-newsletter-subscribe__email-submit" type="submit" value="Go" /></fieldset></form><p>Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) told reporters, “It’s a mess. I can’t figure out what this bill is about. I don’t know what we’re trying to accomplish with it.”</p><p>Other Republicans voiced discomfort with funding for the FBI building, with Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) calling it “kind of a strange addition” to the coronavirus package. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, however, deemed funding for the building a “pressing need.”</p><p>Legislators are attempting to negotiate a new relief package before Congress goes on a month-long recess beginning August 7.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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