House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she does not have any regrets over her initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in February.
“And no, we said testing from March 4. We were writing the bill to find out what the threat was to us while the president was saying delay, denial, calling it a hoax, and causing deaths,” she added.
“No, what we did was at that exact time was writing the first COVID bill, which we brought to the floor and passed on March 4, and it was about testing, testing, testing,” she added. “Because if you don’t test you don’t have a handle on what the problem is.”
Pelosi said that for the next stimulus bill, which is expected to be debated later this month, she believes GOP and Democratic lawmakers can come to an agreement.
“We have to find a compromise because we must extend it,” she said on the show.
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and other Republicans have said there is no need to extend the extra $600 per week payments to laid-off workers.
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