Lawmakers parted on leave for the time of the epidemic and do not take new measures to stimulate the US economy. Donald Trump requires them to return to work in Washington, threatening otherwise to forcibly dissolve Congress.
One of the main stumbling blocks was the program of preferential lending to small businesses. In early April, lawmakers hastily allocated 360 billion to support entrepreneurs. The Treasury managed to spend this money in just a week and a half. Now the White House is asking Congress for another 250 billion to continue this program.
But Democrats in the House of Representatives promise to block any attempts to allocate new funds to help businesses until they receive money for their own priorities – such as financing abortion in an epidemic.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged her Democratic Party colleagues not to return to Washington at all until next week. They say that they do not even have a reason to succumb to the persuasion of the Trump administration and give money to save the economy.
Pelosi herself preoccupies herself with giving out interviews about the details of life in self-isolation. She poses against the backdrop of her luxurious $ 25,000 refrigerator and “designer” ice cream collection.
Other Democrats are trying to hint at Pelosi that this does not put her in the best light in a situation where millions of Americans have lost jobs and livelihoods. And at the same time it secures the reputation of the elitists divorced from real life for the democrats. But she apparently does not care.