WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden’s key allies at the Capitol on Thursday followed a combative stance on COVID-19 relief, accusing Washington Republicans of delay in seeing Biden’s victory while doubling a $2 trillion relief bill that is a start. Republicans of Congress.
The message from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat for California, and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, New York, who witnessed disappointing effects on house and senate strife last week, was that Republicans admit that the presidential election was won through Biden and without delay resume negotiations on COVID relief , with the “HEROES Act” of $2. 4 trillion from Democrats as a starting point
“It is very unfortunate that Republicans do not have to respect the will of the people,” Pelosi told reporters. “It’s like space is burning and they just refuse to pour water on it. “
California Republican Kevin McCarthy, in the most sensible of the ranks, speaking minutes later from the same podium, accused Pelosi of betting on politics with COVID, intentionally dragging pre-election talks about a new relief to deny President Donald Trump a victory he may have had. helped him in the election. .
Ongoing combat occurs when the number of cases across the country increases in a third wave of pandemics that threaten a harmful winter, despite advances in vaccine progression and remedies to combat the disease. The uptick in the economy has been strong so far However, both sides agree that more help is needed, even if they discuss key points such as unemployment aid and tactics for distributing remedies and vaccines.
Congress almost unanimously approved a $1. 8 trillion COVID ransom bill in March, however, top leaders and the administration fought for months so some other stretch of relief deserves to involve. Before the election, with Democrats at the helm of the polls, Pelosi took a hard line in the talks even though management made many concessions. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress have also moved away from concessions made through Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
“She sacrificed our economy and the other people who were suffering,” McCarthy said.
Combative stances do not bode well for a quick solution or an elegant resumption of serious discussions that erupt before Election Day. Capitol Hill is in limbo, frozen by trump’s refusal and Republicans like McCarthy to settle for Biden’s victory and two Senate elections. in Georgia, Republicans are favored to maintain control of the house.
Pelosi and Schumer, meanwhile, continue to push for COVID relief proposals, such as more than $400 billion in aid to state and local governments, which the tough Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican for Ky. , will simply accept.
“What Joe Biden was given in this election a mandate, a mandate to deal with the demanding situations facing our country,” Pelosi said. “And to do that, we want to face COVID, the pandemic. “
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