Schumer Blames Tea Party For Lack of Progress on Relief Bill, Claims ‘We Are Committed to Negotiating’

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi held a press conference earlier regarding the Coronavirus relief bill that has been discussed over the last few weeks.

He claimed that a deal fell through because of White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and the Tea Party of stopping the deal, saying that “ideology blinds them” and that “we are committed to negotiating.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer: "If we don't open up the schools, you're going to hurt the economy significantly." pic.twitter.com/Ne5znhvk2y

— The Hill (@thehill) August 7, 2020

Meadows held a press conference with Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin and they said that they will recommend President Trump move ahead with executive orders on rent, student loans, unemployment.

#BREAKING: Sec. Steven Mnuchin, Mark Meadows will recommend President Trump to move ahead with executive orders on rent, student loans, unemployment: "We agree with the Speaker this is not the first choice but people have run out of the enhanced unemployment." pic.twitter.com/VY9zqG54Rx

— The Hill (@thehill) August 7, 2020

Schumer wants Republicans to meet them in the middle, despite the fact that they are in the majority in the Senate and hold the presidency. He said that “this is the well-spring of our democracy, it’s not much money.”

Meadows scoffed at the offer that was made by the Pelosi and the Democrats by saying, “I don’t know that that’s a reduction as much as she’s just changing the time frames. So I don’t think that she’s come off of her number other than just making it shorter.”