Session Monday: Stay-Home Economy and Jobs Return

session monday: States are staring down red ink as the fiscal year comes to a close, according to CTV. As local leaders are pleading for more federal aid -- even before protests over police violence erupted in almost every corner of the country -- the U.S. Senate resumed session Monday with no immediate plans to consider a fresh round of relief. Many counties are slashing sizable chunks of their government work force. Instead, Senate Republicans are focused on ending the pandemic's stay-home economy by trimming unemployment benefits to push some of 41 million suddenly jobless Americans back to work when jobs return. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox Congress is confronting mounting crises -- the virus outbreak, the shattered economy and now nationwide protests over the killings of black people at the hands of police -- all crashing into an election year. The standoff is perhaps standard Washington negotiating, but they're playing a very dangerous game of chicken, said Meredith McGehee, executive director at Issue One, which advocates for a government reforms to ease political gridlock. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.