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On Saturday, Pelosi called the counteroffer Trump made Friday "insufficient" and "amounted to one step forward, two steps back" in negotiations, underscoring that there are several major outstanding policy issues to work out. In a conference call Saturday with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Senate Republicans blasted the $1.8 trillion offer the White House made to Speaker Pelosi, according to multiple sources. They went through a number of GOP concerns, like state and local funding, as well as the overall price tag. While the sentiment was that talks with Pelosi should continue, it was clear that the White House plan had virtually no chance of passing the GOP-controlled Senate, the sources said. On the call, several GOP senators were sharply critical of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell saying he had gone too far in demanding Congress approve sweeping economic relief and that he went out of his lane in making his demands publicly known, according to two sources.
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