After voting last month to ensure that Donald Trump would stay in office, Senate Republicans are now stepping up once again to the address the nation's needs amid the coronavirus public health crisis. GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters Tuesday that they would do exactly nothing, instead clearing the way for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to negotiate directly with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on a response to help Americans weather the coronavirus.

Mnuchin, McConnell said, would have "ball control," and Senate Republicans would simply defer to the deal cut by Pelosi and the White House. He added that he was certain they could work something out. Wow—almost like a total abdication of responsibility. Or, in fact, an actual total abdication of responsibility. It's basically the exact same play Senate Republicans ran during the Donald Trump-created government shutdown—let Pelosi fix it, which in that case she did.