Schumer: GOP Stimulus Proposal Is ‘Emaciated,’ Likely Won’t Get Democrat Support

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speak to reporters following a meeting with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows as they continue to negotiate a CCP virus relief package on Capitol Hill in Washington on Aug. 7, 2020. Andrew Harnik/AP Photo

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), in a letter to other Democrats, suggested that a new GOP proposal on COVID-19 relief won’t get the support of Democrats in Congress, saying it doesn’t provide enough funding.

“Republicans may call their proposal ’skinny,‘ but it would be more appropriate to call it ’emaciated,'” Schumer wrote Thursday to his members. “Their proposal appears to be completely inadequate and, by every measure, fails to meet the needs of the American people.”