Speaker Pelosi blames Trump, GOP for deadlock in coronavirus relief negotiations

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi cast doubt on coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx and blamed the deadlock in negotiations on the next coronavirus relief bill on the President Donald Trump and Republicans, as federal unemployment benefits expire for 30 million Americans.
“He’s the one who is standing in the way of that,” she said of Trump on ABC’s “This Week. “We have been for the $600, they have a $200 proposal, which does not meet the needs of America’s working families.”
In response to a Politico report that she told Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that Birx was “the worst” in a closed-door meeting on Friday, Pelosi told “This Week” Co-anchor Martha Raddatz, “I think the president is spreading disinformation about the virus and she is his appointee, so I don’t have confidence there.”