House Speaker Nancy Pelosi set a 48-hour deadline for the White House to reach an agreement on a new round of coronavirus stimulus before the upcoming presidential election, saying Sunday that she is still “hopeful” despite no agreement yet in the package’s language.
“The 48 only relates to if we want to get it done before the election, which we do,” Pelosi told ABC’s “This Week.” “But we’re saying to them, we have to freeze the design on some of these things. Are we going with it or not and what is the language? I’m optimistic because, again, we’ve been back and forth on all of this.”
Both Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin agreed to Democrats’ language with “minor” edits for a national coronavirus testing plan on Thursday.
However, a Saturday update by Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, Drew Hamill, revealed that both she and Mnuchin have not reached an agreement on language that would ensure the plan would include contact tracing and “additional measures to address the virus’ disproportionate impact on communities of color.”
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