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US President Donald Trump has declared negotiations with the opposition Democrats for a new Corona aid package to have failed for the time being.
Trump wrote on Twitter that he had instructed his negotiators to suspend talks until the November 3rd presidential election.
On the New York Stock Exchange, share prices immediately plummeted.
The Democrats and Trump's Republicans had been wrestling for weeks over a new aid package to support citizens and businesses in the face of the devastating effects of the corona pandemic.
Opposition leader Nancy Pelosi last spoke on the phone repeatedly with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
The Democrats, however, asked for significantly more funding than the Republicans and the White House wanted to pledge.
Trump accused Pelosi of asking for $ 2.4 trillion in order to financially rehabilitate "badly governed" states with high crime rates by the Democrats.
The chairman of the House of Representatives was not concerned with the fight against the corona virus and its economic effects.
His government, on the other hand, made a "very generous" offer of $ 1.6 trillion.
Trump wrote on Twitter that he would win the presidential election on November 3rd - and immediately afterwards launch a new stimulus package.
In polls, the incumbent is currently behind his challenger Joe Biden of the Democrats.
Pelosi sharply criticized Trump for breaking off the talks.
Trump shows his "real face" once more and puts himself first "at the expense of the country," said the chairman of the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
"The White House is clearly in complete disarray."
"By running away from the coronavirus talks, President Trump is proving that he is unwilling to destroy the virus," Pelosi said.
Trump shows his "contempt" for science and the "heroes" of the world of work.
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