U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Nancy Pelosi) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Chuck Schumer) jointly attended a press conference on Thursday, calling for the introduction of the Democrats proposed $2.2 trillion in health care assistance and economic stimulus bill before the end of the year, in order to deal with the rapid deterioration of the current epidemic in the United States.
Pelosi said the number of new infections in the U.S. is climbing steadily and breaking records, with more than 140,000 people infected in a single day, and the enactment of a new relief bill is imminent.
On the same day, the Senate majority leader, Republican McConnell (Mitch McConnell), the economy has improved as the reason, advocating another relief more narrow scope of the bill, similar to the Republican Party previously proposed $50 million economic bill. McConnell argued that Democrats were trying to “exaggerate” the seriousness of the situation.
Republican Senator Susan Collins, for her part, pleaded for bipartisan negotiations to begin and said the intensifying epidemic was sending new shocks through the U.S. economy.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell also said Thursday that Congress needs to provide a stronger economic stimulus package to sustain economic growth. He did not, however, offer specific recommendations.
Pelosi and Schumer also called on Republicans to accept that Joe Biden has been elected president of the United States.
Schumer called on Senate Republicans to “stop denying the facts”. He said, “The results of the election are indisputable, and the Republicans are just playing a temper tantrum and putting on a pathetic political show for their only audience, and that audience is President Trump.
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