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According to a report from the Daily Wire, House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi said that she is considering keeping the House of Representatives and congress out od session until well into May.
Pelosi “signaled Thursday that the House is unlikely to return to session later this month, her clearest indication yet that Congress — like the rest of the country — could remain shuttered for weeks or even longer as the coronavirus crisis continues,” according to Politico.
Trump has crafted another coronavirus task force which will mainly focus on the reopening of the U.S. economy.
“Hopefully we’re going to be opening up …. very, very, very, very soon, I hope,” Trump said during a briefing on Thursday.
“We’re going to open up strong, very successfully and I’d like to say even more successfully than before.”
Pelosi said, “Nobody can really tell you that and I would never venture a guess. I certainly don’t think we should do it sooner than we should.”
“This has taken an acceleration from when we started this. Little did we know then that at this point, we’d be further confined.”
“I would hope that the scientific community would weigh in and say, ‘You can’t do this, it is only going to make matters worse if you go out too soon.’”
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That’s an odd statement, given that Pelosi and others were still at work even as states declared full lockdowns to prevent or slow the spread of coronavirus. The $2.2 trillion CARES Act — the third coronavirus relief package — was passed just before Congress left Washington, D.C., for their spring recess.
On Thursday, Pelosi, who now says there will be little more than a skeleton crew of Federal legislators in Washington until at least May, stood in the way of an emergency relief bill that would have added $350 billion to the Paycheck Protection Program, a small business relief fund that is swifly running out of cash.
She implied, in her speeches Thursday afternoon, that she wanted the bill brought before the full House and Senate rather than passed by unanimous consent — something that can’t happen unless Pelosi gets all of her own members on the same page and in the same room. Small business owners may now have to wait for months to see additional relief funds.
