MBTA workers surveyed the scene of a Red Line derailment on June 11, 2019 at the JFK/UMass station. Repairing damage from the incident snarled subway service for months afterwards and led to a scathing independent audit of the T’s safety practices. State House News Service Photo | Chris Lisinski

Time will tell but it doesn’t sound like Senate President Karen Spilka is eager for that branch to take up more than $600 million in new transportation taxes approved by the House before the COVID-19 pandemic struck.

During a CBS Boston interview with Jon Keller, Spilka said transportation infrastructure is not an area that the state can kick down the road, but pointed to interest on the Senate side in an $18 billion borrowing plan for transportation that has also moved through the House and was initially recommended by Gov. Charlie Baker.

“I do not have any tax increase on my radar right now,” Spilka said.

The crisis has shifted priorities, she said, identifying COVID-19 response and ensuring that the economy “stays as strong as it possibly can be” as two top priorities that encompass things like saving lives and ensuring the flow of jobless benefits, aid to small businesses, and funding for hospitals. Asked if public employee contracts will need to be renegotiated, Spilka said she didn’t know and would have to see.

Bond bills require roll call votes, which are not allowed in the types of informal sessions the legislature is operating under, and any member present at sessions can halt the progress of any bill, which creates a much higher hurdle for bills than under normal circumstances.