Schumer: GOP should ‘stop sitting on their hands’ on coronavirus bill

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Thursday that Republicans should “stop sitting on their hands,” after new figures put the number of unemployment claims since late March at 40 million. “The cost of Republican inaction grows every day. … Senate Republicans ought to stop sitting on their hands and work in a bipartisan way to provide the immediate help workers and families need,” Schumer said. He also knocked ongoing…