We're so primed to think of politics through the lens of partisan conflict that stories describe a bill passing near unanimously as "bitterly partisan," and stylize week+ long negotiations as "stalemate."
There are a lot of reasons partisanship is muted. Congress is engaged in crisis management with a lack of executive leadership. Leaders operate under time constraints. They are forced to negotiate broad, bipartisan deal due to health/travel restrictions.
That does not mean differences do not exist. Of course, leaders and parties jockey for negotiating leverage & political position.

But this is so far from actual bitterly partisan and stalemated negotiations.
Put simply, Congress is delivering massive financial responses at incredibly fast intervals with broad bipartisan support to the greatest health/economic crisis in a century.
We can argue if Congress is delivering the proper programs, funding, or lacks sufficient deliberation or oversight capacity.

But the speed and bipartisan politics of these responses isn't really debatable.
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