His. Bill Cassidy
Bill CassidyDiumenge shows the preview: the budget resolution paves the way for a .9 trillion stimulus; The Senate is preparing for a prosecution trial Don’t let this unifying moment go to waste The Senate gives broad support to more specific coronavirus relief controls (R-La.) He said Sunday that Biden administration officials show they do not want to work with Republicans on a coronavirus economic stimulus bill.
“I’m absolutely willing to work with anyone if it’s good for the American people, because that’s what we should all be dealing with. We have conservative solutions. The more conservative values instill public policies, I think, the better public policies are. on the other hand, the administration is making it very clear that they don’t care if they have to work with us, ”Cassidy told NBC’s“ Meet The Press ”Sunday.
“They’re willing to push things forward even if someone like Larry Summers, a former Democratic Treasury secretary, says it’s a wordless policy. I’m paraphrasing,” he added, referring to the 1-aid package. , $ 9 trillion from President Biden. “And even if we come in good faith with at least ten or more who have joined us, and they say they don’t care. So you have it, it takes two for tango. Right now, I’m not sure we have the two for tango “.
The White House is in the midst of ongoing negotiations with Republican Congress on the size and scope of the relief package. During a recent meeting, Biden told a group of 10 Republican Party senators that a $ 618 billion package is too small and not enough to help Americans affected by the pandemic.
There is broad bipartisan support for the next round of coronavirus stimulus checks to target more people who need the funds the most, The Hill reported last week.
Senate Democrats passed a budget resolution Friday that will allow them to push through a relief package without Republican Party support.
“First, let’s say we all made it clear that we’re willing to negotiate. That wasn’t our end point. It was where we felt that if we put things together, we added them together, it was a sum that met the needs of the American people.” , Cassidy said Sunday.
“And why could President Biden believe it? He could believe it, because when there was a Republican president and Republicans controlled the Senate, we passed five different COVID relief packages on a bipartisan basis with overwhelming margins. We had shown that we would negotiate and we would come to the answers. I should do the same because maybe it is the right policy, “he added.