Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday that he worries another coronavirus relief package might not be enacted because Speaker Nancy Pelosi fears it would reflect positively on President Trump.
“I am somewhat concerned that she is afraid that any deal would be good for the president,” he told CNBC.
Pelosi, a Democrat from California, in July began calling the coronavirus the “Trump virus” and has for months blamed the president for the economic downturn that followed nationwide lockdowns.
“The president of the United States is central to that failure because he rejects science and he rejects governance,” Pelosi said on MSNBC in early September. “From the start, he was in denial, delay, distortion, called it a hoax. He just would not accept the science.”
In public appearances, Pelosi devotes time to criticizing Trump’s response to the virus and his latest calls for schools to reopen and to end widespread testing and lockdowns…
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