Partisan barbs offered by top lawmakers Thursday amplified just how divided Washington's leaders are over how—or even if—they should further assist the American people in recovering from the pandemic's toll on the U.S. economy.
. Or, as White House senior economic adviser Larry Kudlow described it, they are at"a stalemate."
"They called yesterday, and the secretary said, 'Would you like to sit down?' And we said what we have said all along: you [go up] $1 trillion, we'll [come down] $1 trillion [sic]," Pelosi recounted."But we're not sitting at the table to validate what you have proposed because it does not meet the needs of the American people."
"That's not negotiating. That's throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks," McConnell expounded."People who have serious policy proposals that are fitted to actual needs cannot breezily knock off a trillion here and add a trillion there." Asked about the prospect of passing a stimulus before September rolls around, Senator Pat Roberts said,"Maybe that's too much to ask. Who knows?"
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