WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number looks intimidating when you write it out.

• Congress has approved $2.3+ trillion to combat coronavirus
• Lawmakers already talking about another relief package
• Some Ohio members want to move more cautiously

In the last month, Congress has passed three pieces of legislation that direct more than $2,308,000,000,000 to fight the coronavirus.

But a fourth relief package — you can call it “Phase 4” — is inevitable.

So what do Ohio’s lawmakers think should be addressed in the next round?

“Pensions are in trouble now because of the stock market and because of layoffs,” Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said in a video conference interview. “So there’s not the money going in and their balance sheets aren’t good because of the stock market. So we’ve got to do something about that.”

Representative Tim Ryan (D, 13th Congressional District) offered a similarly urgent suggestion.

“We have got to get more money and resources to the smaller towns that are under 5,000 people,” Ryan said in a FaceTime interview. “We really need to make sure that they have support.”

On the Republican side of the aisle, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said he wants “Phase 4” to be more forward-looking.

“One thing we’ve got to do is to get better prepared for the next one,” Portman said in an interview on the Hill last week. “This virus was something that nobody predicted specifically, but a lot of people understood that this was a risk. And yet, we were not properly prepared.”

While some of Ohio’s fiscal conservatives, like Rep. Dave Joyce (R, 14th Congressional District) and Rep. Steve Chabot (R, 1st Congressional District), want to pump the brakes.

“Let’s let this mature and see where we’re at,” Joyce said in an interview on the Hill last Friday.

“Hopefully most of what we’re going to need is in there,” Chabot echoed, moments later. “But we’re here to help and if the country needs more, we’ll be there. But the way we also have to look at this is, ultimately, this is money we’re spending that we’re going to have to find some way to pay back.”

So many of us are working from home, and right now, Congress is too. The House and Senate have recessed until April 20.

But members told me they are holding calls and video conferences to figure out what next steps the federal government will have to take as the coronavirus keeps spreading.

And a reminder: Just like phases one, two and three, a fourth relief package will have to be passed by both the United States Senate and House of Representatives before it gets to President Trump to be signed into law.