House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said she will not hold a vote on additional COVID-19 relief to extend expanded unemployment insurance payments that expired at the end of July, saying it would imperil negotiations with the White House on a broader pandemic deal.
The House is slated to vote on funding the U.S. Postal Service and preventing the federal government from implementing changes to the agency.
This week, more than 100 Democrats signed a letter to push Pelosi to schedule a vote on the same day on legislation to extend the $600-per-week unemployment benefits.
“That’s a very positive initiative. I have encouraged that, I have welcomed that suggestion,” Pelosi told “PBS NewsHour” on Thursday.
“I don’t think strategically it’s where we should go right now, because the Republicans would like to pass something like that and say forget about it,” Pelosi continued. “Forget about state and local [government funding], forget about our investments in stopping the virus, forget about other initiatives that feed the food insecure children in our country, vote by mail initiatives and the rest.”
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