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“When they are ready to do that, we will sit down,” Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol.
The remarks predicted a rocky path forward as the parties googled over a fifth round of emergency relief, designed to address the health needs and economic devastation caused by the pandemic, which has hit the United States harder than any other country.
Pelosi and Leader for Minorities for Senates Charles Schumer
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Except for specific policy specifications, the parties do not yet agree on the overall size of the next aid package.
Pelosi and House Democrats had a $ 3.4 trillion relief bill in May, while Republicans in the House of Representatives responded late last month with a $ 1.1 trillion counter-proposal.
Democrats had offered to meet in the middle last week – somewhere in the $ 2 trillion range – but Republicans declined the offer, ending the talks indefinitely.
In search of a breakthrough, Mnuchin and Pelosi spoke by phone on Wednesday, but the conversation did nothing to break the theft. Indeed, Pelosi said she had made the same $ 2 trillion offer, and Mnuchin had responded with the same rejection.
Mnuchin later issued a statement saying Pelosi’s account was “not an accurate reflection” of the conversation.
“She made it clear that she was not ready to go ahead with the negotiations unless we agreed in advance with her proposal, and it would cost at least $ 2 trillion,” Mnuchin said, adding that the Democrats “had no interest. have negotiated. “
Pelosi questioned on Thursday where the inaccuracy lay, noting that both sides were clear that the disagreement was aimed at the Democrats’ $ 2 trillion demand.
“We said, ‘$ 2 billion and then we can sit at the table.’ Then he said, “That’s not what she said. She said $ 2 trillion or we can not sit at the table,” Pelosi said. “Didn’t you think that was strange?”
When asked when she would speak to Mnuchin again, Pelosi reinforced her numerical requirement.
“I do not know. If they come in with $ 2 trillion,” she said. “But we are not sitting around the table to validate anything [they] have proposed because it does not meet the needs of the American people. “
At the press conference, Pelosi pointed to a map that highlighted some of the key differences between the parties’ proposals. Democrats, for example, are seeking roughly $ 60 billion in food stamps and other anti-hunger programs, against the Republican $ 250,000 offer.
For coronavirus testing, Democrats have proposed $ 75 billion – about five times GOP’s supply. And a larger divide separates the sides when it comes to helping tenants: Democrats want $ 100 billion; Republicans have offered zero.
“We are miles apart in our values,” Pelosi accused.
Their chart did not include several other provisions that preceded an agreement, including the Democrats’ demand for hundreds of billions of dollars in new funding for state and local governments, an incentive of $ 600 weekly unemployment benefits and $ 25 billion to to support the U.S. Postal Service in the run-up to the November election, when expected post-in polls flood the system.
President Trump
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Pelosi was quick to point out that there is no difference between the two – “they are the same thing,” she said – while accusing Trump of trying, preemptively, to delegitimize the results of an election he thinks he might lose. .
“He knows that, on the legit, it would be hard to beat him,” she said. “It simply came to our notice then [up] obstacles to participation. “
It is unclear what force will intervene to break the partisan accident. Members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate have returned to their districts, the next monthly job report – the first to reflect the expiration of the $ 600 subsidy – will not be released until the first week of September and party conventions are ready to much of consuming the nation’s attention over the next two weeks.
These dynamics have sparked speculation that Congress will have little choice but to combine a fifth-round coronavirus aid with the next must-pass legislation that comes to the fore: the funding of the federal government, which must be updated by October 1st to prevent a shutdown.
However, Democrats warn that the health and economic problems caused by the pandemic are too serious to wait that long.
To make that point, Pelosi noted that nearly 4 million new cases of coronavirus in the U.S. have been diagnosed since the House passed its $ 3.4 trillion proposal, including more than 75,000 deaths. They accused the Republicans of pushing a “lean, piece” reaction that would only cause those numbers to go up.
“We can not wait until September 30,” she said, “because people will die.”
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