Even the Republicans could see that it was necessary to compensate workers for the loss of their jobs during the shutdown. As a result, Congress approved enhanced unemployment insurance for a limited time on a bipartisan basis.
With the impending end of the lockout period, we are entering into a new phase, in which the legislative focus will change from a form of compensation to a more traditional stimulus. Republicans are already determined to claw back benefits from workers in order to assist their pro-business donors. And so, the expanded unemployment benefits, which will serve as a back door form of a minimum wage increase after the end of the lockout, will undoubtedly expire. Liability protection for employers from claims based on the virus will be on the table. Aid for state and local governments may be withheld in an effort to force those governments to impose layoffs and pay cuts on public employees. And so on.
The Democrats will resist all of this and launch completely justified attacks on the GOP as being anti-worker. Republicans rely largely on the votes of white workers; how will they respond? By attacking China and reviving the culture wars, of course, because distraction is what they do. Sometimes, it even succeeds.