House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer blasted Republicans, blaming their 'months-long disarray and delay' for a lapse in federal unemployment benefits which are set to expire in the coming days.
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MORE: 'They're going to fall off a cliff': August set to bring new financial anguish as coronavirus aid lifelines expire House Democrats passed an additional $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill in May which would extend the federal unemployment benefits through the end of the year, but the Republican-led Senate refused to take the measure up.
Chief of Staff to President Donald Trump, Mark Meadows, and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin speak to the media about the next coronavirus stimulus package after meeting with Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, July 23, 2020."You can't eat retroactively," Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks in a hallway on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 23, 2020. The draft closely mirrors what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell outlined in remarks laid out on the Senate floor Thursday on what GOP leadership and the White House are negotiating, including providing $105 billion for schools, with at least part of the funding contingent on schools reopening doors in the coming months.
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