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Swift, bipartisan agreement on a new coronavirus stimulus package seems unlikely as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin dug in on their opposing positions Sunday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday appeared on ABC News' "This Week" and detailed some of the ongoing negotiations between Republicans and Democrats over a forthcoming coronavirus relief package.Republicans and Democrats have hit a wall over the since-expired $600 weekly boost to federal unemployment benefits, which was part of the…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows made clear in separate interviews Sunday that they remain far apart on a coronavirus relief deal that would restore expired unemployment benefits for millions of Americans.The three spoke a day after a rare weekend meeting at the Capitol yielded…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that she lacks confidence in Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator and world-renowned public-health authority, because she was appointed by President Trump. “I think the president is spreading disinformation about the virus, and she is his appointee, and so I don’t have confidence there, no,”…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday defended including language in a proposed coronavirus relief package that would provide legal protections to banks that service marijuana businesses if enacted. Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, reiterated her support for the proposed marijuana banking protections while responding to a reporter who argued cannabis is not “directly related” to countering…