{"id":88039,"date":"2020-08-11T08:37:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=88039"},"modified":"2020-08-11T08:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T13:37:58","slug":"auto-draft-140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2020\/08\/11\/auto-draft-140\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Open to More Coronavirus Aid Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88040 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Virus-Aid-Talks-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Virus-Aid-Talks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Virus-Aid-Talks-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Virus-Aid-Talks.jpg 600w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Virus-Aid-Talks-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Virus-Aid-Talks-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Virus-Aid-Talks-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 WASHINGTON &#8211; The White House signaled Monday it is open to more negotiations with opposition Democrats on a coronavirus aid package and willing to spend more money to reach a deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re prepared to put more money on the table,\u201d Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC. \u201cThe president is determined to spend what we need to spend.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump signed executive orders Saturday extending a portion of the expired benefits to millions of unemployed workers and deferring payroll taxes for many employed Americans. In a new Twitter comment, he did not rule out more negotiations but blamed Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for Friday\u2019s collapse of talks on an aid package. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo now Schumer and Pelosi want to meet to make a deal,\u201d Trump tweeted. \u201cAmazing how it all works, isn\u2019t it. Where have they been for the last 4 weeks when they were \u201chardliners\u201d, and only wanted BAILOUT MONEY for Democrat run states and cities that are failing badly? They know my phone number!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1292810574603202565&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.voanews.com%2Fcovid-19-pandemic%2Fwhite-house-open-more-coronavirus-aid-talks&amp;siteScreenName=VOANews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1292810574603202565\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Speaking Monday to MSNBC, Pelosi called Trump\u2019s orders \u201can illusion,\u201d and said his\u00a0efforts are not aimed at helping people, but rather boosting the stock market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be partisan that we would feed our children,\u201d Pelosi said.\u00a0 \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be partisan that we\u00a0not allow\u00a0people to be evicted because they\u2019re caught up in a pandemic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embedded-entity align-right div\" role=\"group\">\n<div data-embed-button=\"wysiwug_image\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:media.embedded\" data-entity-type=\"media\" data-entity-uuid=\"754d4d35-8aa9-4469-a034-04f7e0b90263\" data-langcode=\"en\">\n<figure class=\"media media--type-image media--view-mode-\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/im-media.voltron.voanews.com\/Drupal\/01live-166\/styles\/sourced_410px_wide\/s3\/2020-08\/AP_20220737584103.jpg?itok=FYv-drSd\" alt=\"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., left, speak to\u2026\" width=\"410\" height=\"273\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, left, speak to reporters following a meeting with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Aug. 7, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the talks collapsed last week, Schumer and Pelosi said Democrats were willing to cut $1 trillion from their original demand for White House approval of the $3.4 trillion coronavirus aid package approved by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives in mid-May. They said the White House should at the same time double its call for a $1 trillion deal to at least $2 trillion, but the Trump administration refused.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury chief said the Trump administration is willing to spend more money, but not \u201cunlimited amounts of money that don\u2019t make sense.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mnuchin said the two sides have \u201cagreed on more money for businesses that are particularly hard hit,\u201d sending another $1,200 check economic stimulus check to most adult Americans, providing more aid to schools so they can reopen safely and more money for hospitals and the development of vaccines to combat the coronavirus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But one key sticking point in the coronavirus talks is additional aid to state and local governments, the assistance Trump disparaged as \u201cbailout money\u201d for jurisdictions run by opposition Democrats. Pelosi and Schumer say the hard-pressed state and local governments need $1 trillion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve offered more money for state and local [governments],\u201d Mnuchin said, \u201cbut we\u2019re not going to give a trillion&#8230;. That\u2019s just not a reasonable approach.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mnuchin called for congressional passage of aid the two sides have agreed on while talks continue on disputed items, but the Democrats have balked at a piecemeal approach to an aid package.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mnuchin declined to speculate when talks could resume.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the collapse in the negotiations, Mnuchin said Trump \u201cneeded to take action,\u201d the executive orders he signed at a golf resort he owns in Bedminster, New Jersey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday talk show appearances, Schumer and Pelosi derided the provisions as too limited to help unemployed workers or other Americans impacted by the coronavirus. Pelosi also said Trump\u2019s actions were unconstitutional since U.S. authority for spending legislation rests with Congress, not the president.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embedded-entity div\" role=\"group\">\n<div data-embed-button=\"wysiwug_image\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:media.large_embedded\" data-entity-type=\"media\" data-entity-uuid=\"510b8915-dc95-4968-b883-ff80eb0fc50d\" data-langcode=\"en\">\n<figure class=\"media media--type-image media--view-mode-\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/im-media.voltron.voanews.com\/Drupal\/01live-166\/styles\/sourced_737px_wide\/s3\/2020-07\/AP20204742315794.jpg?itok=pF2BhvP7\" alt=\"Motorists take part in a caravan protest in front of Senator John Kennedy's office at the Hale Boggs Federal Building \" width=\"737\" height=\"475\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption>FILE &#8211; Motorists take part in a caravan protest in front of Senator John Kennedy&#8217;s office at the Hale Boggs Federal Building asking for the extension of the $600 in unemployment benefits to people out of work, in New Orleans, La., July 22, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Democrats sought to extend the $600-a-week federal government boost to less generous state unemployment benefits through the end of 2020 after they expired at the end of July. Trump cut the figure to $400 and said states should pay $100 of that amount.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schumer blamed Senate Republicans for failing to\u00a0take action\u00a0for months after the House passed its coronavirus relief legislation and said Trump\u2019s orders to help the unemployed fall short of what is needed to help people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump&#8217;s executive order on unemployment benefits is put together in such a sloppy way that it&#8217;ll take weeks or months for states to even implement. Millions could lose everything before they ever see a check,\u201d Schumer tweeted Monday.\u00a0 \u201cRepublicans must get back to the negotiating table!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The president also suspended the 7.65% payroll tax for workers who make less than $100,000 a year through the end of 2020. Unemployed workers, who do not pay the tax because they aren\u2019t collecting a paycheck, won\u2019t benefit. The taxes are used to fund pensions and health care for older Americans. The money would need to be paid back eventually unless Congress acts to write off the deferred taxes. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump also said he was extending protections for rental tenants threatened with eviction, further delaying student loan payments and maintaining zero percent interest on federally financed loans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The spread of the pandemic remains unchecked in the U.S. with the country\u2019s number of confirmed cases topping 5 million on Sunday and the death toll more than 163,000. Both figures are the biggest national totals across the globe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 WASHINGTON &#8211; The White House signaled Monday it is open to more negotiations with opposition Democrats on a coronavirus aid package and willing to spend more money to reach a deal.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re prepared to put more money on the table,\u201d Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC. \u201cThe president is determined to spend what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88042,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88039\/revisions\/88042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}