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 treatment of the Covid pandemic has become a focal point of the 2020 presidential race. Fair candidate Joe Biden, who leads in assessments of public sentiment, blamed Trump on Wednesday for "abandonment" of obligation in managing the pandemic, which has cost a huge number of occupations. The Republican president has promoted his administration of the emergency.

The Republican bill would have recharged a government joblessness advantage, however at a lower level than Democrats looked for. It likewise would set new assurances for organizations against claims during the pandemic. 

A variety of different activities - including help to state and neighborhood governments, a second round of direct installments to family units, and bailouts for aircrafts - were not tended to in the Republican bill.