In a letter to her Democratic colleagues on Saturday, the Democratic leader said that progress on the negotiations “is complicated by the complete unrest on the Republican side – because President Donald Trump opposes his own negotiators and his own position.”
She criticized Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republicans for refusing further funding for states and local governments, calling them a “major obstacle” in negotiations.
Pelosi’s letter marked the three-month anniversary of the House’s passage of the $ 3.4 trillion stimulus package from the Democrats, the HEROES Act.
Both the House of Representatives and the House of Representatives are now in recession in September without passing an incentive bill after weeks of negotiations between the Trump administration and Democrats broke down. However, if there is a deal on the incentive, members will have 24-hour notice to return for voting.
On Friday, a small group of members of the House bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus spoke with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows about how to end the undone, and plan to continue future discussions.
“We had a productive, hour-long discussion about ways to help break the logjam between the parties, get negotiators back in the room, and help America in our response to the Covid crisis. We look forward to future meetings,” he said. tells a person on the call told CNN.
Other members on the call were caucus co-chairs Tom Reed and Josh Gottheimer, and reps Dean Phillips, Abigail Spanberger, Jimmy Panetta, and Anthony Gonzalez.
Republicans and Democrats are trillions of dollars apart at a topline cost and owe each other for the deadlock.
McConnell has accused Democrats of having “sabotaged” talks with “absurd demands that would not help workers.”
Pelosi called on the GOP to increase its offer by $ 1 trillion and said it would come down by $ 1 trillion – allowing them to negotiate a deal over the $ 2 trillion range.
But Pelosi’s proposal lacks support from White House and Republican leaders of the House of Representatives believe that a bill with that price tag would not pass their House.
Manu Raju, Ted Barrett and Clare Foran of CNN contributed to this report.
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