By Mitchell Kukulka, includes “A new infusion of federal money does not appear to be on the way anytime soon. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Democrats' approach includes ‘huge sums of money for state and city governments with no linkage to demonstrated COVID needs.’ … Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a budget over the summer with a $5 billion deficit, which he and lawmakers assumed would be covered by a second federal coronavirus relief package. ‘Every state ... every city is suffering from failure of revenues because of COVID-19,’ said Pritzker, a Democrat. ‘The federal government is really the only resource that we all have to turn to.’ …”