WASHINGTON — Democrats’ coronavirus efforts have gone to pot.

A behemoth 1,800-page, $three trillion coronavirus aid package deal unveiled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and doomed to go up in smoke within the Senate consists of more than 68 references to the phrase “cannabis.”

The phrase “jobs” seems 52 instances and the phrase “hire” simply 17 instances because the economic system craters and a report 36 million Americans file for unemployment.

Top House Democrats included provisions within the bill permitting state-legal marijuana companies to entry monetary providers throughout the pandemic, however doesn’t permit them to use for aid funds by means of the Small Business Administration.

It’s a bipartisan challenge, backed by the likes of GOP Sen. Cory Gardner from Colorado who’s going through a troublesome re-election battle in November, however many Republicans questioned the outsize deal with cannabis within the sprawling coronavirus bailout bill up for a House vote Friday.

The package deal additionally features a second wave of $1,200 stimulus checks, $175 billion for housing help and a trillion {dollars} for state and native governments to pay for important employees together with police and nurses.

But the Democrat seize bag was met with a refrain of criticism from Republicans when it eliminated a working requirement for meals stamps, omitted language proscribing abortion funding and added protections in opposition to deportation of unlawful immigrants.

Republicans have flatly rejected passing the HEROES Act — Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), who managed morning House flooring debate for Republicans, saying “As a package, it’s going nowhere.”

“It would make more to sense in my view, Madam Speaker, to send it straight to Santa Claus,” Cole stated on Friday morning.

One GOP Hill supply stated the package deal was “dead on arrival” — a sentiment some Democrat lawmakers additionally shared after rapidly resigning themselves to the very fact it was a gap shot.

“It’s political messaging only,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) advised The Post on Wednesday.

“There’s no chance in the Senate and they know it. Any time they start adding in attempts to provide federal funding for abortions in a COVID-19 response, we know they’re not serious,” he stated.