Clyburn slams Republicans for "jerking people around"
Washington — Congressman Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, derided Republicans and the White House for suggesting a short-term extension of enhanced unemployment benefits, saying Sunday that Congress needs to "quit jerking low-income people around."
"This one week, two weeks, this jerking people around is not the way we ought to be conducting ourselves as custodians of this great democracy of ours," Clyburn, the House majority whip, said in an interview with "Face the Nation."
Democratic leaders have spent the last few days meeting on Capitol Hill with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for discussions on the next coronavirus relief bill. But a deal remains out of reach, as there are several areas of disagreement between the two sides. Chief among them is the extension of $600 per week supplemental unemployment benefits, which expired for roughly 30 million jobless Americans at the end of July.
While Republicans and the White House have suggested a short-term extension of the enhanced benefits, which would give lawmakers more time to negotiate a broader package, Democrats have rejected taking a piecemeal approach.
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