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Pelosi Says Democrats Unveil New COVID-19 Aid Bill

Reuters

   WASHINGTON - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on
   Monday that Democratic lawmakers unveiled a new, $2.2 trillion
   coronavirus relief bill, which she said was a compromise measure that
   reduces the costs of the economic aid.

   In a letter to Democratic lawmakers released by Pelosi's office, she
   said the legislation "includes new funding needed to avert catastrophe
   for schools, small businesses, restaurants, performance spaces, airline
   workers and others."

   "Democrats are making good on our promise to compromise with this
   updated bill," she said. "We have been able to make critical additions
   and reduce the cost of the bill by shortening the time covered for
   now."

   Pelosi in recent days has said she thinks a deal can be reached with
   the White House on a new coronavirus relief package and that talks were
   continuing. But she also said that she would offer legislation if the
   impasse continued with the Trump administration over the size and shape
   of another relief package.

   She did not say when there would be a vote on the latest Democratic
   proposal.

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