GOP leaders had previously hoped to release the package on Thursday but delayed the release after the Trump administration requested additional time to review the bill, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
"But Mr. Secretary, the plan was supposed to be announced on Wednesday, then Thursday.| Wallace said."Now it's next week and it's two months after the democrats came up with their plan."a $1 trillion relief package
However, the plan will not include a payroll tax cut despite President Trump suggesting he wouldn't sign the package without it.During their conversations with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Ca., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.,"it was very clear that the Democrats were not going to give us a payroll tax cut so that is something that the president will come back and look at later in the year," Mnuchin told Wallace.
"There were a number of Republicans who rejected this...They all said that they had no interest in that as well," Wallace said. "So you got blowback from not just democrats but from some top republicans as well."
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