Hoping for another stimulus check? Well ...

Hoping that you might get another stimulus check?

Well, we hate to be the bearers of bad news, but it's seeming ever less likely. 

After the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the fight over filling her seat on the Supreme Court has consumed Capitol Hill. 

"I think it gets increasingly difficult," Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., said Monday. 

Americans have held out hope Congress would come to a deal after much of the benefits it approved this spring to counter COVID-19's impacts ran out. An extra $600 weekly unemployment benefit expired in July, a loan forgiveness program for small businesses also dried up and Americans haven’t seen another stimulus check.

"People are still suffering and McConnell won't do anything about it, but he will try to ram a Supreme Court judge through," said Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio. "That tells you about his values, and it tells you about his regard for people in this country."

Here's what else is going on today: 

• Dr. Fauci pushed back against Sen. Rand Paul during a coronavirus hearing. 
• The former Florida Attorney General defended the Kenosha shooter as 'a little boy' trying to help
• What the GOP-led Senate panels found on Hunter Biden
• Cindy McCain, widow of John McCain, is endorsing Joe Biden.

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