Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper about “AC360,” Pelosi said the Republican Party has “a disdain, or a kind of condescension, toward working people, apparently because they don’t trust how they could use the $ 600 – that guy. “Oh, they have money to pay the rent, they just aren’t paying the rent.” Well, we can’t operate if we’re not even stipulating a basic set of facts. “
“People are suffering,” he continued. “The unemployment rate is high, and that we have a way to address this in terms of honoring our heroes, testing, tracing, treating, as well as money in the pockets of the American people, being respectful of them, and understanding their needs.” .
Republicans will need the support of Democrats to get a bill on the president’s desk, and the two sides are beginning to separate.
Leaving a more than an hour meeting with top White House negotiators on Tuesday, Pelosi said the message Democrats have received is that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “really doesn’t want to get to an agreement”.
He based that assessment on Wednesday night and offered that the negotiations “still have a long way to go, but we are determined to try to find common ground.”
“And we need the public to assess the need to support state and local government and all people who serve the community. You cannot open schools. State and local governments provide more than 90% of the funds for schools. So this is all connected, “he said, connecting the Democrats’ proposal.
“Everything is covered in the HEROES law, and I hope they will come close to our thinking about it.”
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