bitter partisanship. Top Washington negotiators continued to reach for a long-delayed agreement on COVID-19 relief on Monday, but rank-and-file Democrats appeared increasingly resigned to having to drop, for now, a scaled-back demand for fiscal relief for states and local governments whose budgets have been thrown out of balance by the pandemic.“Again, it feels like we are stuck in the negative feedback loop," Stephen Innes of Axi said in a commentary.