WASHINGTON – Senate Republican leaders are preparing a slimmed-down coronavirus relief package of roughly $500 billion that will include extended payments for unemployed people and smaller businesses, a GOP senator said Tuesday.The measure will also include $10 billion for the embattled Postal Service, said one top GOP aide.
The agency has become the focus of a campaign-season battle over whether it will have enough resources to handle an expected flood of mail-in ballots for this November's presidential and congressional elections.The fight between President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats over weathering the pandemic has become a critical battle that's highlighted Trump's troubled handling of an outbreak that has killed over.