The U.S. Senate's scheduled vote for a coronavirus stimulus bill is a "stunt" by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Sunday.
McConnell on Saturday set a Wednesday vote for a $500 billion COVID-19 relief bill that will expand federal unemployment benefits, provide over $100 billion to schools, replenish the Paycheck Protection Program and fund vaccine production and distribution.
He needs 60 votes to move the bill through the upper chamber. Democrats in mid-September blocked similar legislation.
Schumer called the "skinny bill" "inadequate, just up and down the line … just a sham," according to The Hill.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said she and President Donald Trump haven't reached an agreement on coronavirus relief, and that a deal must be struck in the next 48 hours.
"We don't have agreement in the language yet, but I'm hopeful," the speaker said on ABC's "This Week."
"I'm optimistic because, again, we've been back and forth on all of this."
The Democrat-led House passed a $3 trillion relief package in May that didn't progress in the Senate. The White House recently offered a $1.8 trillion compromise.
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