Pelosi: 'Hopeful' COVID-19 aid bill can still pass before election
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks during an instructions to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 10, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua RobertsAdd caption WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was cheerful enactment for extra COVID-19 help could be finished before the Nov. 3 presidential political decision regardless of how the Republican-drove Senate decided on a thinned down rendition later on Thursday. Pelosi, who controls the Democratic-drove House of Representatives that passed a bigger bill in May, told correspondents at a news gathering that novel Covid pandemic-related help would not be in a different measure to subsidize central government offices. Recently, Congress quickly passed four bills giving about $3 trillion to react to the COVID-19 emergency. The Democratic-controlled House passed a fifth bill in May that would give another $3 trillion in help, yet gridlock has since won. President Donald Trump's treatmen...