This week not a single Democrat voted for the Republicans' scaled-back stimulus plan and no leadership-level negotiations between Republicans and Democrats ensued. Instead, Congress is turning its focus now to simply passing a short-term spending bill by the end of the month aimed at keeping the government funded and then heading home for the election. Asked if the stimulus negotiations were officially dead, Sen. Dick Shelby, a Republican from Alabama, told reporters, "It looks that way." We thought the scaled-down version was a good bill, a good timing and everything else. That's all we can do, is tee it up and go with it," Shelby said.

Source: CNN September 12, 2020 09:45 UTC