{"id":29724,"date":"2020-12-04T16:32:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T00:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29724"},"modified":"2020-12-04T16:32:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T00:32:25","slug":"more-in-the-new-burst-of-optimism-on-covid-relief-pelosi-bullish-says-we-cannot-leave-without-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29724","title":{"rendered":"More in the new burst of optimism on COVID relief: Pelosi bullish, says ‘We cannot leave without it’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a>\u00a0(D-Calif.) expressed optimism Friday that the parties will come together to secure a coronavirus relief package before Congress leaves Washington for the winter holidays.<\/p>\n

Addressing reporters in the Capitol, the Speaker said party negotiators still have a number of disagreements to iron out to win such an agreement, but indicated the sides are making steady progress and all but guaranteed that a bipartisan deal will be sealed in the coming days.<\/p>\n

“We’ll take the time we need and we must get it done,” she said. “We cannot leave without it.”<\/p>\n

Pelosi had spoken Thursday with Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell<\/a>\u00a0(R-Ky.) seeking a strategy for passing both an emergency COVID-19 bill and legislation to fund the government and prevent a shutdown. Both sides\u00a0emerged from that discussion<\/a>\u00a0in agreement that the two bills should be lumped together for the sake of expediency \u2014 a message Pelosi amplified on Friday.<\/p>\n

A key breakthrough<\/em>: Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Charles Schumer<\/a>\u00a0(D-N.Y.)\u00a0announced this week<\/a>\u00a0that they’re prepared to lower their funding demand dramatically,\u00a0agreeing to use<\/a>\u00a0a recently released bipartisan framework \u2014 in the range of $900 billion \u2014 as the baseline of the talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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