The White House chief of staff said the unemployment benefit shouldn’t be extended because it “paid people to stay home”
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Sunday reiterated that the Trump administration and Senate Republicans won't extend a $600 boost in unemployment benefits in a forthcoming coronavirus relief package.
"We are going to be prepared on Monday to provide unemployment insurance extension that would be 70% of whatever the wages you were [making] prior to being unemployed, that it would reimburse you for up to 70% of those wages," Meadows said. "Hopefully as a way to get people back on their feet." Among other major differences, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders have insisted on an extension of the $600 unemployment benefits, which was allocated by the CARES Act rescue package in March.
On Sunday, both Meadows and Mnuchin downplayed the differences between the White House and Republican senators. Meadows said he and Mnuchin will head to Capitol Hill again on Sunday to put "the final touches" on a $1 trillion bill Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to unveil on Monday.
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