Republicans and Democrats said this morning that a massive emergency bill on the coronavirus outbreak remains on track to be approved by the House, but has been slowed down by last-minute nervousness
House Republicans have grown skittish about a coronavirus package negotiated by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and are hoping President Donald Trump openly embraces the bill to provide them political cover.
The last-minute nervousness has stalled the passage of the package through the House. As of 11 a.m., there were open questions about whether Trump will support the massive, multibillion-dollar bill.Without Trump's endorsement, Democrats are likely to pass the bill along partisan lines, which would signal that it will not get through the Senate and, thereby, is unlikely to become law. A little after 11 a.m., House GOP leaders were huddling in House Minority Whip Steve Scalise's office.
"The negotiations are going very well. This has been a bipartisan effort,” Mnuchin said on CNBC on Friday morning, adding that he has been “constantly” talking to Trump as well as Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, the two GOP leaders in Congress. “I think we're very close to getting this done.” Pelosi spoke by phone with Mnuchin — the lead negotiator for the White House — earlier Friday morning, as the two sides scramble to resolve lingering issues, specifically a provision on how much, and for how long, affected workers would receive paid time off.House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal said shortly after 10 a.m. that text would be released "in the next minutes, if not the next hour.
"The speaker I know is going back and forth on a number of last-minute issues with the secretary," Neal said.by Nancy Pelosi and Steven Mnuchin to provide them political cover.
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