WASHINGTON: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin remained far from agreement on COVID-19 relief in key areas on Thursday , after they failed in a phone discussion to bridge what Pelosi described as differences over dollars and values.
"The two discussed further clarifications on amounts and language, but distance on key areas remain. Their conversation will continue this afternoon," Drew Hammill, Pelosi's deputy chief of staff, wrote on Twitter. He said the phone call lasted about 50 minutes. Republican Senator Mike Braun told CNBC on Thursday that a deal worth over US$1.6 trillion could be rejected by one-third to one-half of Senate Republicans. That would still allow a bill to pass with support from Democrats.
Mnuchin raised hopes of an agreement by telling reporters that the discussions had made"a lot of progress in a lot of areas".
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