WASHINGTON As Senate Republicans try to advance a coronavirus relief bill with only $200 a week in extra unemployment benefits down from the expiring $600 many House Republicans are signaling that theyre opposed to any extra money at all.

Zero is the number for me, Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas) told HuffPost on Wednesday.

Several of Williams House GOP colleagues also questioned whether the federal government should be providing any additional money to state unemployment benefits as more than 25 million people on Saturday will lose the stipend the federal government has been kicking in since March.

Too much is $1 over what they would make if they had a job, Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said.

Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) claimed the majority of people thought it was a good idea to not have any bonus unemployment (polls show completely the opposite ).

Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.) said it should be left up to each states governor, meaning the federal government shouldnt be handing out extra money. And Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) said he would prefer a payroll tax cut over added unemployment benefits, though he also said he wouldnt vote for a $1 trillion bill like Senate Republicans were offering let alone a $3 trillion bill like the one House Democrats passed in May.

The Republicans pressed their case against giving jobless people any extra money amid the continuing global pandemic and its ripple effects of an unemployment rate that remains over 11% and a U.S. economy that declined by almost 33% in the second quarter the largest drop. They see the aid as an incentive for many to stay unemployed.

Im not sure that we should be adding to a states unemployment, said Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) head of the Freedom Caucus whose members consist of the House GOPs most conservative members.

When HuffPost asked if zero was the right number in the debate over extending the additional jobless aide, he said, It may be.

Theyre getting all kinds of additional benefits, including there was direct payments, everything else, Biggs said, referring to the one-time check of up to $1,200 that individuals received in the spring. So Im saying, what theyre doing now is theyre providing disincentives to go back to work.

Biggs wouldnt rule out voting on a bill that included some benefits There are some things I might consider going with that but he added his ideal number was zero.

Its unlikely any bill offered by the Democrats who control the House could satisfy Republicans like Biggs. And that may be the ultimate irony of the GOPs hardline approach.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) faces a mutiny among his ranks, as roughly half of the Senate GOP majority seems opposed to even a skimpy stimulus measure. So if theres going to be a bill that makes it to President Donald Trump s desk, its probably going to take mostly Democratic votes to get it there, both in the Senate and the House.

Trump has actually signaled that hed like to increase the unemployment benefits, saying on Wednesday that the payments arent enough . But many congressional Republicans , based on their recent comments, seem to have just woken up to the fact that, under Trump, theyve added more than $6 trillion to the governments debt.

I have voted for bills that have raised the federal debt in the last six months more than I have voted to raise the federal debt in the last six years, Rep. Rob Woodall (R-Ga.) told HuffPost.

But if Woodall and the other House Republicans have suddenly refocused their attention on the debt, it might take them out of the current political equation meaning a deal on a new relief bill would likely need to hew closer to what Democrats want and, paradoxically, cost even more money.