Pelosi presses Mnuchin for White House response on coronavirus aid

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Pelosi presses Mnuchin for White House response on coronavirus aid
By By Mike Lillis and Dominick Mastrangelo - 10/29/20 08:26 AM EDT

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.


A Morning Consult poll released earlier this week found Americans blame Republicans and President Trump slightly more than Pelosi and the Democrats for not being able to strike a deal. Independent voters surveyed blamed the GOP, 43 percent to 34 percent.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/523310-pelosi-calls-on-mnuchin-to-respond-to-list-of-unresolved-issues-in-stimulus-talks

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Kudlow: Pelosi has 'no intention of compromising on key issues' in stimulus talks

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Thursday accused Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of being unwilling to compromise on key issues in coronavirus stimulus negotiations and said that targeted economic relief is “not going to happen.”

Kudlow, speaking on Fox News, criticized Pelosi over a letter sent to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Thursday morning asking for a response to Democrats’ latest offer on coronavirus relief. He also claimed that the letter was given to Politico before it was sent to Mnuchin.

“Somehow, I guess it’s a mystery, that letter got to Politico before it got to the secretary. Our team now believes that the Speaker has no intention of compromising on key issues,” Kudlow said. “She is stringing us along.”


A Democratic aide, however, said that the letter was sent to Mnuchin’s staff at 12:05 a.m., hours before Politico Playbook published Thursday morning.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/523342-kudlow-pelosi-has-no-intention-of-compromising-on-key-issues-in