Pelosi presses Mnuchin for White House response on coronavirus aid
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday pressed the White House for a response to the Democrats' latest offer on emergency coronavirus relief, warning that Washington's failure to act quickly on another round of disaster aid will only heighten the health and economic fallout as the pandemic surges around the country.
“Your responses are critical for our negotiations to continue," Pelosi wrote in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin this week. "The President’s words that ‘after the election, we will get the best stimulus package you have ever seen’ only have meaning if he can get [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell to take his hand off the pause button and get Senate Republican Chairmen moving toward agreement with their House counterparts.”
The letter arrives just five days before Election Day, with both parties seeking to blame the other for the stalemate that has prevented an agreement on another multitrillion-dollar infusion of emergency funding to prop up struggling states, businesses, families and health care providers.
https://thehill.com/homenews/523310-pelosi-calls-on-mnuchin-to-respond-to-list-of-unresolved-issues-in-stimulus-talks
