News Biden urges deal on $900B stimulus, dodging questions on McConnell
President-elect Joe Biden on Friday urged Congress to pass a $900
billion coronavirus relief bill during the lame-duck session as a starting point in public remarks notable for their care in dealing with GOP and Democratic objections to the emerging compromise.
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Biden said it was critical to get a bill passed soon to provide relief to Americans hours after a new labor report showed slowing job growth as coronavirus cases spike across the country.
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He repeatedly dodged questions about whether he's spoken to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), while deflecting questions about progressive concerns that the legislation does not provide enough immediate help to families in need.
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"We need more economic relief to bridge through 2021 until this pandemic and economic crisis are over. And then we need to build back better," Biden said.
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Those remarks reflected Biden's emerging position, that the country cannot wait for some relief but that additional measures could be passed after he takes office Jan. 20.
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Asked why he's confident Republicans, who have thus far balked at the price of Democratic proposals, will be willing to go bigger once he's in office, Biden replied: "Because the country is going to be in dire, dire, dire straits if they don't."
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Asked then if he'd spoken directly with McConnell, Biden smiled but did not directly answer.
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"We'll be in dire trouble if we don't get cooperation and I believe we will," he said.
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McConnell and Biden have a long relationship given Biden's decades in the Senate. Biden helped in negotiating several end-of-year packages with McConnell as vice president to former President Obama.
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Biden told CNN in an interview Thursday that he has received private congratulatory calls from "several" GOP senators, but he declined to name who they were.
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McConnell is not among the handful of Republicans who have referred to Biden as president-elect, though earlier this week he made a reference to the "next administration."
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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are facing mounting pressure to get a deal on coronavirus aid done before the end of the year as infections and hospitalizations surge and unemployment benefits are set to expire.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) spoke Thursday with McConnell seeking a strategy for passing both an emergency COVID-19 bill and legislation to fund the government and prevent a shutdown. Both sides emerged from that discussion in agreement that the two bills should be lumped together for the sake of expediency - a message Pelosi echoed Friday.