House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has lowered her demands for COVID-19 relief, but Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., says it is not a good-faith gesture as much as an admission she was playing politics before the election.
"Speaker Pelosi ought to be ashamed of herself for actually now showing what we've known all along, and that is this is a political decision for her," Collins told Fox News' "Fox & Friends Weekend." "She played politics with people's lives on COVID-19 response."
Pelosi has long held out for any coronavirus pandemic stimulus, demanding the Senate to take up the $2.2 trillion HEROES Act. Now, she says she is willing discuss the focused relief aid Republicans are willing to pass.
"Look in the dictionary under political hypocrisy, it would be Nancy Pelosi, the speaker, who all through the fall would never come to the table to discuss getting relief before the election," Collins said. "And then, now miraculously, because she believes Joe Biden won the election and the vaccine's around the corner: 'OK, I'll look at something different.
"That is despicable."
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