“We will be prepared on Monday to provide an extension of unemployment insurance that would be 70 percent of whatever you have paid. [making] before being unemployed, they would reimburse you for up to 70 percent of those wages, “said Meadows.” Hopefully it’s a way to get people back on their feet. “
But Republicans and the White House still need to negotiate with House Democrats, and the Republican Party’s stance on unemployment will set up a partisan clash.
Among other important differences, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) And other Democratic leaders have insisted on an extension of the unemployment benefits of $ 600, which was allocated by the rescue package of the Law CARES in March.
Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin were on Capitol Hill on Saturday to continue working out a proposal for economic relief with Senate Republicans after differences in a series of problems delayed the publication of the legislation last week.
On Sunday, both Meadows and Mnuchin downplayed the differences between the White House and the Republican senators. Meadows said he and Mnuchin will head to the Capitol again on Sunday to put “the finishing touches” on a $ 1 billion bill. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Is expected to reveal Monday.
Pressured by host George Stephanopoulos over concerns that the administration’s focus on unemployment benefits “will be nearly impossible to manage” and will lead to “real gaps” for unemployed people before they receive money, Meadows predicted “we will find a way to actually provide a threshold that meets that guideline. “
“[Mnuchin] and I’ve been on Capitol Hill, as you know, over the weekend, we’ll be going back there again today, putting the finishing touches on a bill that leader McConnell plans to introduce tomorrow, “said Meadows.” But honestly, let’s see that we can provide unemployment insurance, perhaps a withholding credit, to prevent people from being displaced or returned to the workplace by helping with our schools. “
“If we can do that along with liability protection, maybe we will propose it, approve it since we can negotiate the rest of the bill in the coming weeks,” he added.
