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Only 48 hours to approve the $ 1,200 check: time is running out to settle before

2020-10-18T19:36:49.806Z


Democrats set a deadline to agree on the stimulus package and the Senate speeds up the vote despite Trump's reluctance.


The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, assured this Sunday that there are still differences with the Administration of President Donald Trump on a new aid package for the pandemic and warned that, to achieve that it is approved before the elections that are in only 16 days, would have to reach an agreement with the Secretary of the Treasury, Steve Mnuchin, in the next 48 hours.

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"We still don't have a language agreement but I'm hopeful," Pelosi said in an interview on ABC.

"I am optimistic," he added.

Reaching an agreement "depends on the Administration," he said.

Pelosi spoke for more than an hour Saturday night with Mnuchin.

"There remain a number of additional differences as we move forward, provision by provision, that need to be addressed comprehensively within the next 48 hours," Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said on Twitter Saturday night.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin will be in the Middle East until Tuesday, so a deal these days is unlikely.

Pelosi and Mnuchin have been negotiating for months to reach an agreement on another pandemic aid package.

This week, progress on the plan was reported after a conversation between the two.

Mnuchin said he will accept "with minor modifications" the Democratic proposal on testing, monitoring and surveillance of the virus, according to the spokesman for the House leader.

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The Senate will vote next Tuesday on a bill to extend the resources of the Salary Protection Program (PPP, in English), which offers help to small businesses to pay wages and resist the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic;

and the next day, Wednesday, he will try to pass a half-billion-dollar economic aid package that was already failed in September by the Democratic opposition.

The president, Donald Trump, has been on Twitter against this plan, because he prefers more ambitious proposals that include a second check for 1,200 dollars for citizens;

Nor are the Democrats backing it because they defend an even bigger bill that includes social benefits for those hit by the brutal economic recession.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday that the bill to be voted on Wednesday includes new unemployment benefits (such as those approved by Congress in the spring of $ 600 a week, which ended in July, though smaller amounts), as well as funds for small businesses, to increase the number of diagnostic tests, and improve protective measures in schools.

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McConnell again criticized the Democratic Party, and Pelosi in particular, for stalled negotiations on Saturday.

The Democrats, however, have approved their plan in the House of Representatives, of 2.2 billion dollars and with a check of 1,200 dollars for citizens and 600 benefits for the unemployed.

But it was stalled in the Senate by opposition from Republicans, so the lack of understanding and the blockade is mutual. 

With information from ABC, CNN and Reuters.

Source: telemundo

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