Republican senators, President Biden rightly seek accord on coronavirus relief package (Editorial)
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
Negotiations of any sort will never bear fruit unless all parties involved are ready to compromise, willing to give a little to get a little. And the talks make sense only if everyone is working toward the same goal.
Consider the simplest, real-world example: A pair of coworkers discussing where to have lunch won’t ever be able to reach accord if one of them isn’t actually intending to eat until dinnertime.
Ten Senate Republicans who produced a coronavirus relief package that is roughly one-third the size of the $1.9 trillion measure proposed by President Joe Biden went to the White House on Monday to talk. Even before the confab, the administration said that Biden wouldn’t be making any sort of a counteroffer at their meeting.