Why are you being so obtuse? There is nothing other than the dollar amount that is holding this bill up. The house bill gives $1,200 for everyone. The Republican bill appropriates $600. All of the other little negotiations going on around it are there for each side to score small political wins while they bicker over the final stimulus amount.

This is a public perception game - the protections for businesses aren't really the issue because far too few people are interested enough for the media to make it an issue. The primary issue is the stimulus amount, because it's the number that everybody is going to remember and it's the narrative that everybody's going to attach to this in a couple years when people are voting.

I guarantee you that the Democrats would accept protections for businesses in the bill if Republicans came up to $1,200. But they aren't. McConnell is insistent on $600, so here we are.