Congress fiddles over how much pork to pack into stimulus package

Over the last week, congressional plans to deliver cash payments to Americans and assistance to businesses morphed into partisan mudslinging and an opportunity for special interests to use this moment to advance their interests.
From a limited-government perspective, there is a reasonable case for providing aid to Americans unable to work and businesses unable to operate because of government orders. But what’s been happening in Washington, D.C. is the sort of dysfunction that has long cha