Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance On The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline The Hill's Campaign Report: Trump faces backlash after not committing to peaceful transition of power MORE (R-Ky.) said Thursday that he doesn't support a bipartisan effort in the House to give lawmakers a pay raise for the first time in a decade, dimming the chances of the proposal going forward.

"We’re not doing a COLA adjustment in the Senate," McConnell said in a statement, referring to a cost-of-living adjustment.

McConnell's opposition makes it all the less likely that a bipartisan deal can be reached to give lawmakers a cost-of-living adjustment for the first time in a decade.

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House GOP leaders have expressed openness to the pay raise, despite the outright opposition from their Senate counterparts.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Kevin Owen McCarthyMcCarthy says there will be a peaceful transition if Biden wins GOP lawmakers distance themselves from Trump comments on transfer of power McCarthy claims protests in Louisville, other cities are 'planned, orchestrated events' MORE (R-Calif.) reiterated his support for the pay raise idea on Thursday, but acknowledged that McConnell's opposition makes the chances slim that a deal could be reached.



"Well, my position on this is the same. I do not believe Congress should only be a pace for millionaires. Seeing what Leader McConnell has said in his opposition, it does complicate the path for this to become law. I don't want to pre-judge the outcome here for the House, but it could put in doubt that that becomes law," McCarthy said at a press conference in the Capitol. Under a decades-old law, members of Congress are set to receive annual cost-of-living adjustments unless they move to block them, as they have since 2009.

House Democratic leaders originally planned to consider a spending bill for legislative branch operations this month that would allow lawmakers to receive a $4,500 pay raise in January. But they ultimately pulled it from the House floor last week following pushback from swing-district Democrats wary of the optics.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer Steny Hamilton HoyerOn The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline Vulnerable Democrats tell Pelosi COVID-19 compromise 'essential' Anxious Democrats amp up pressure for vote on COVID-19 aid MORE (D-Md.), who has been pushing to give lawmakers a cost-of-living adjustment for years, said he hopes to complete consideration of all spending bills by the end of this month.

Rank-and-file members of Congress currently make $174,000 annually. Members of leadership earn more, with the Speaker making $223,500 and the House minority and majority leaders making $193,400.

Proponents of giving lawmakers a cost-of-living adjustment argue it's necessary to raise pay caps for staff, who can't make more than their bosses.