Suggesting a narrower pandemic relief package may be all that’s possible, the White House is still pushing ahead with Monday’s planned rollout of the Senate Republicans’ $1 trillion effort.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi assailed the GOP “disarray” as time-wasting during the crisis.
By Friday, millions of unemployed Americans could lose an expiring $600 federal jobless benefit and a federal eviction moratorium is also coming to an end.
The Trump administration's top negotiators - White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin - spent the weekend at the Capitol trying to finish the package.
Meadows said they have an agreement “in principle” with Senate Republicans.
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