The top Democrats in Congress were to meet Saturday with two top Trump aides to try to reach a deal to pump more money into the U.S. economy to ...
WASHINGTON: The top Democrats in Congress are not close to a deal with the White House to pump more money into the US economy to ease the coronavirus' heavy toll, both sides said on Saturday , after an essential lifeline for millions of unemployed Americans expired.
"We're still a long ways apart and I don't want to suggest a deal is imminent because it is not," Mnuchin told reporters, adding"there are still substantial differences but we did make good progress."Congress for the past several months has been unable to reach an accord for a next round of economic relief from a pandemic that has killed more than 150,000 Americans and triggered the sharpest economic collapse since the Great Depression.
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