Bipartisan Senate group offers new help to state, local governments

A bipartisan group of senators are introducing a bill on Monday to provide hundreds of billions in new funding to state and local governments that have been hit hard by the spread of the coronavirus. The bill, spearheaded by Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), would provide $500 billion in emergency funding, in addition to the $150 billion passed by Congress in March. The bill “is the commonsense, reasonable and bipartisan…