President Trump said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Second Chamber member Nancy Pelosi “want to meet to make a deal” on the fourth coronavirus incentive package, after negotiations between congressional lawmakers and the White House reached a stroke over the weekend.
“So now Schumer and Pelosi want to meet to make a deal,” the president tweeted Monday. “Amazing how it all works, it’s not.”
“Where have they been the last 4 weeks when they were ‘hardliners’, and only wanted BAILOUT MONEY for Democrat run states and cities falling badly?” Trump went on, adding, “They know my phone number!”
The president’s tweet comes after he signed four executive actions over the weekend to provide Americans with financial relief from the ongoing pandemic, after Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill failed to reach an agreement on what to include in it. fourth incentive package.
WHAT IS IN PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FOR CORONAVIRUS RELIEF EXECUTIVE ORDERS?
The executive actions included $ 400 a week in additional unemployment benefits – a replacement for the program passed under the CARES law during the year, which gave unemployed people an extra $ 600 a week until the federal program ended. July expired.
The action would require states to pay $ 25 percent of the week’s benefit $ 400, while the federal government would charge $ 75 percent.
The $ 400 payment to unemployed Americans came when Republicans on Capitol Hill claimed that the initial unemployment insurance program was incentivizing Americans to return to work, with many raising more money for the unemployed than committing. Republicans pushed for the program to be reduced to $ 200 per week, while Democrats argued that the program should be renewed to the original $ 600 per week.
The president also outlined executive actions that would encourage federal efforts to help tenants and homeowners avoid eviction or negligence for the failure of their monthly payments; defer the payroll tax from Sept. 1st. until 31 Dec. 2020, for employees making $ 100,000 a year; and stop federal student loan payments and set interest rates at 0% through Dec. 31. 2020 – The current student loan relief program is set to expire on 30 September.
But Schumer, DN.Y., on Monday called the executive orders “ridiculous,” and told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the administration “has no respect for the American people.”
Schumer went on to claim that White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is to blame for a lack of a deal on the fourth package.
“We came up with a strong plan, but we were even ready because we wanted to do it so badly,” Schumer said. ‘We said last week to the president, to the president’s negotiators, we meet you in the middle. We’ll cut a trillion. You increase a trillion. You know what they said? Absolutely not. I said to her, do you mean it’s your way as the highway? And they said, yes. ‘
PELOSI SLAMS TRUMP EXECUTIVE ACTIONS AS ‘ILLUSION’
Meanwhile, Pelosi, D-Calif., Over the weekend dismissed the president’s executive actions as an “illusion” and an “unconstitutional slump.”
“While it has the illusion of saying we have a moratorium on evictions, it says I will ask those responsible to study if possible. While he says he will do the tax service, what he does undermines Social Security and Medicare , so these are illusions, “Pelosi said.
She later added that Trump’s mandate “does not provide the money in enhanced benefits, but instead places a complicated formula that will take some time to complete to put money in the pockets of the American people.”
Talks had been stalled for weeks, with Democrats demanding more than $ 3 trillion in the relief bill, while Republicans struggled to finally come together for a $ 1 trillion proposal. Pelosi on Thursday proposed that the parties give $ 1 trillion each and pass a $ 2 trillion proposal, but Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that the idea was a “non-starter”.
