{"id":18199,"date":"2020-12-09T20:13:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=18199"},"modified":"2020-12-09T20:13:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:13:37","slug":"trump-makes-916b-covid-relief-bill-offer-to-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/18199","title":{"rendered":"Trump makes $916B COVID relief bill offer to Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington,<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump proposed a $916 billion relief bill to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the sides seek to reach an agreement on a package to stem the economic bloodletting inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic, his treasury secretary said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Mnuchin said in a statement posted to Twitter that the package includes funding for state and local governments as well as &#8220;robust liability protections for businesses, schools and universities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement on my discussions with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpeakerPelosi<\/a> on COVID relief. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z3g2geg4sl\">pic.twitter.com\/z3g2geg4sl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steven Mnuchin (@stevenmnuchin1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevenmnuchin1\/status\/1336437461094903812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look forward to achieving bipartisan agreement so we can provide this critical economic relief to American workers, families and businesses,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the funding will come from some $140 billion in unused funds from an earlier COVID relief package, as well as $429 billion in money from the treasury, Mnuchin said.<\/p>\n<p>The package has been reviewed by Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>Additional details on the package were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Tuesday, Pelosi blasted McConnell for suggesting lawmakers pursue an even more slimmed down version of a coronavirus relief package even as a bipartisan and bicameral group was moving forward on negotiations, suggesting the top Senate Republican&#8217;s proposal is &#8220;appalling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bipartisan negotiations involving Senators and Members of the House have made good progress and must be allowed to proceed without Leader McConnell&#8217;s obstruction,&#8221; Pelosi said in a statement that was released within minutes of Mnuchin&#8217;s call with her.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi did not immediately react in public after Mnuchin released his statement.<\/p>\n<p>Congress is facing a ticking clock to pass a stimulus bill as well as a wider spending bill before lawmakers adjourn Dec. 10 for the winter break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, US President Donald Trump proposed a $916 billion relief bill to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the sides seek to reach an agreement on a package to stem the economic bloodletting inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic, his treasury secretary said Tuesday. Steven Mnuchin said in a statement posted to Twitter that the package includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18200,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18199\/revisions\/18200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}