<p>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) refused the White House&#8217;s offer of a $1.8 trillion &#8220;compromise&#8221; deal on coronavirus relief almost immediately upon offering, but some prominent Democrats are now firing back at the longtime leader, telling her to take the deal.</p>
<p>Andrew Yang, a former Democratic presidential candidate, tweeted point-blank at the Speaker over the weekend, telling Pelosi to &#8220;take the deal&#8221; or risk political fallout.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nancy Pelosi take this deal!&#8221; Andrew Yang, he said, directing her to the $1.8 trillion plan. &#8220;Put politics aside people are hurting.&#8221;</p>
<p>Former Obama administration bigwig Dan Pfeiffer agreed, telling Pelosi to ignore &#8220;potential risks&#8221; and ink the deal with President Donald Trump, sending relief to families in need instead of forcing them to wait until after the presidential election.</p>
<p>&#8220;While there are potential risks, Democrats should aggressively pursue a COVID Relief deal with Trump,&#8221; Pfeiffer tweeted.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the right thing to do, but the politics can also work in our favor,&#8221; Pfeiffer added, citing an op-ed that suggests Democrats will share both credit and blame &#8212; and would be better off sharing credit ahead of a contentious November election.</p>
<p>Even progressive Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), who typically falls further to the left than Pelosi on most issues, urged his boss to ink the deal, suggesting that the stimulus package would make Joe Biden&#8217;s transition to power much easier if he wins in November.</p>
<p>&#8220;People in need can’t wait until February. 1.8 trillion is significant &amp; more than twice Obama stimulus,&#8221; Khanna said. &#8220;It will allow Biden to start with infrastructure. Obama won in 08 by doing the right thing on TARP instead of what was expedient. Make a deal &amp; put the ball in McConnell court.&#8221;</p>
<p>The deal doesn&#8217;t cover all of Democrats&#8217; top priorities, but it does, reportedly, deliver a second round of $1200 stimulus checks to individual taxpayers, grants a small reprieve from student loan payments, and extends the supplemental federal unemployment benefit, though it lowers the weekly amount from $600 to $400 (it currently sits at $300, where applicable). The bill also, according to experts, extends a hand to cities and states suffering from the economic fallout from coronavirus lockdowns, though it does not allow cities and states whose financial issues predate COVID-19 to claim benefits.</p>
<p>The $1.8 trillion bill does not include a bailout for the United States Postal Service, something the Democrats have insisted on, but it is remarkably close to the amount Democrats wanted to spend to &#8220;bail out&#8221; American industries. The final Democrat-authored coronavirus relief bill came in at $2.2 trillion, just around $400 billion less than the White House&#8217;s version.</p>
<p>Pelosi, though, called the deal a &#8220;step back&#8221; in a letter to colleagues.</p>
<p>&#8220;This proposal amounted to one step forward, two steps back,&#8221; she said, noting that it failed to include “strategic plan to crush the virus,&#8221; even though few entities are prepared to issue such a plan, even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  Instead, the CDC is focused on issuing temporary guidelines to control and limit coronavirus transmission while the White House pursues a coronavirus vaccine.</p>

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