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Nancy Pelosi threatens to end stimulus talks and says ‘no use continuing’ if Republicans do not come to table
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"We have to come to some conclusion. We told them we will go down a trillion if you go up a trillion for the children. Again, let's meet in the middle. We have said all of that," said on Wednesday.
The – a $3.4 trillion package passed by House in May – was lowered to $2 trillion.
Dems say they agreed to lower their package by $1 trillion if met in the middle and raised their own $1 trillion package by the same amount.
Pelosi continued: "But until they’re ready to do that, it’s no use sitting in a room and letting them tell us states should go bankrupt.”
The breakdown in talks entered its fifth day on Wednesday as Pelosi described the two sides as "miles apart" with a "chasm" between them.
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Neither Pelosi nor Secretary of the Treasury gave any sign that the negotiators will be resuming discussions anytime soon.
Speaking with on Wednesday, Mnuchin renewed a push for a more limited next-round pandemic relief package of “a little more than $1 trillion.”
Mnuchin said that Democratic demands for spending more could be discussed down the road.
“We can always come back later in the year or January and do a sixth bill,” Mnuchin said. “We don’t have to do everything at once.”
On Monday, Senate Majority Leader slammed Democrats during a Senate meeting as .
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"For weeks, speaker Pelosi and Democratic leader in the Senate stalled and stalled..." McConnell said.
"Clearly this isn’t about Covid," McConnell said. "Democrats think they smell an opening they’ve wanted for years to make Uncle Sam bail out decades of mismanagement and broken policies in places like New York, New Jersey and California."
Last weekend, President President after the $600 guarantee expired at the end of July.
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