WASHINGTON– As the extra $600 in welfare end on Saturday, talks in between the White Home and congressional leaders on extending all or a portion of it have actually degenerated into an orgy of finger-pointing.
The Senate left town on Thursday after a lot of drama and no significant progress toward reaching consensus on an extension. With his Republican conference dramatically divided on the problem, all Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky might do was established a legal automobile in case an offer comes together next week.
Home Democrats passed a bill in May that, among lots of other responses to the coronavirus pandemic, would extend the extra $600 a week from the federal government up until the end of the year.
Settlements in between top congressional Democrats and White Home officials haven’t gone anywhere, despite four rounds of talks on Capitol Hill. And instead of trying to find some consensus to avoid a lapse in the welfare, leaders from both parties are now selectively leaking information about settlements to make the opposite look worse.
The most recent debate involves a deal that was never actually made. In a conference with congressional leaders and White Home chief of staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Thursday, the Trump administration drifted the concept of a one-week extension of the $600 benefits so that both sides could continue negotiating.
That led Meadows to ask a rhetorical concern: Would Democrats reject a four-month extension at $600?
According to senior aides from both celebrations, that question wasn’t indicated as a serious deal. But it was notable to Republicans that