WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday morning a deal on federal coronavirus aid needs to be struck within 48 hours to get relief to Americans before Election Day.
The “skinny” bill is in stark contrast to a much larger package that would include additional $1,200 direct payments being pushed by President Donald Trump and shows a divide not only between Democrats and Republicans — but inside GOP leadership.
Democrats, including Pelosi, have gone on record saying they aren’t interested in a smaller-bore approach to virus relief.
According to the Washington Post, Pelosi and Mnuchin continued talks Saturday around a spending deal between $1.8 trillion and $2.2 trillion.
Trump has said he would support even more and noted during Thursday’s town hall with NBC that Republicans “will agree with it.”.
Many political insiders speculate Republican lawmakers are concerned about cutting a large spending bill with Pelosi just weeks before control of the Senate is put in the hands of voters.
Along those same lines, pundits question whether Pelosi would cut a deal with Republicans less than three weeks before a tight presidential election.
“A fly on the wall or wherever else it might land in the Oval Office tells me that the President only wants his name on a check to go out before Election Day and for the market to go up,” Pelosi said in a letter to her colleagues last week.
What I hear from the president just the opposite,” said Sen.
Some Democrats are convinced that Joe Biden is poised to reclaim the White House and have been pressuring Pelosi to strike a less ambitious deal that would deliver aid now rather than letting the economy to continue to struggle without help until next year.
With just over two weeks left until the presidential election, President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden held rallies in swing states, firing attacks at one another
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