While Trump knocked getting a deal with the Democrats and by that meaning Pelosi….
No deal was Not an option health, economic or political wise…
The President and Republicans was under YUGE pressure to produce SOMETHING…
“We are proud to have reached an agreement with the Administration to resolve outstanding challenges, and now will soon pass the Families First Coronavirus Response Act,” Pelosi wrote.
Several hours after, Trump tweeted his support, ensuring House Republicans would back the measure and allowing Pelosi to fast-track it. The Senate would follow next week.
“This Bill will follow my direction for free CoronaVirus tests, and paid sick leave for our impacted American workers,” Trump tweeted. “I have directed the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Labor to issue regulations that will provide flexibility so that in no way will Small Businesses be hurt.”
The developments came after a roller-coaster day that started with a deal seeming imminent, before it looked like it was unraveling over successive hours. House Republicans indicated concerns and Trump himself voiced opposition, complaining at an afternoon news conference that Democrats were “not doing what’s right for the country.”
At one point Pelosi announced that Democrats would be moving forward with a vote, with or without Republicans on board.
But behind the scenes, Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin continued negotiations that began earlier this week, By early Friday evening they had spoken by phone 13 times that day alone.
Pelosi praised the emerging legislation in a televised address Friday afternoon. “Put families first — today, we are passing a bill that does just that,” she said, laying out provisions of the legislation such as free coronavirus testing, paid sick and family leave, and food assistance for poor families…
Note…
House Speaker Pelosi and President Trump have NOT spoken to each other for a while…
The deal was done by Treasury Sec. Mnuchin …
Trump has done virtually NOTHING directly with this whole virus situation except make mistakes speaking to the public
image…fox4charlotte.com
All he does is lie.
One lie after another.
Bald faced and unmitigated.
Of course the Senate can’t follow suit since McConnell sent them home.
Rand must have lawn work to do.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was absent from negotiations on a coronavirus relief package, spending Friday in Kentucky at a judicial event with Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
As a pandemic sweeps the globe, creating economic and health care panic, McConnell shuttered the Senate for the weekend on Thursday, leaving it to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to reach a deal on legislation in response to the crisis….
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Yesterday ,Trump Lied claiming Google was establishing some kind of website that would tell people if they needed a coronovirus test and how to get one..
That hasn’t happened ,nor is it even planned.
Apparently Verily ,is experimenting with a site to serve the San Francisco area ,mostly for health workers.
Just lie upon Lie.
Meanwhile ,as Keith indicated above,Mitch is back in ol Kaintuck trying to figure out away to mess with “them libruls.”
Trump?How many Lies will he tell today?
“Yesterday Trump lied”
Also yesterday the sun came up in the East.
Haha!
However ,if you told a Republican that Trump lying was as sure as the Sun coming up in East,they would likely ask,
“How do you know the Sun comes up in the East?”
Could this get Mnuchin fired?
Karen Tumulty Retweeted
Anne Rumsey Gearan
@agearan
Mnuchin gives a special thanks to
@SpeakerPelosi
who was “literally available to us around the clock for the last three days.”
Why?
Trump specifically thanked her too in his remarks.
Yea
After he said the Dem’s caused the issues?
Trump hasn’t spoken the Pelosi for a while…
I know the Treasury Sec , like Pence , made sure to give thanks to Trump, from which ALL things come from, but mentioning others have gotten Trump people fired in the past…
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and Mayor Bill de Blasio chastised Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for leaving Washington this weekend and demanded he pass the current coronavirus stimulus bill as soon as the Senate returns to session Monday.
“It was disgraceful that Leader McConnell left town last night … We could have had this done already, but he left,” Schumer said Saturday from the Blue Room of City Hall. “I am calling on [him] to move this package immediately when we return on Monday — as is.”…
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