Pelosi uses coronavirus crisis to push tax relief for blue-state millionaires

Published April 1, 2020 4:00am ET



With millions having lost their jobs as a result of the national shutdown aimed at mitigating the death toll of the coronavirus pandemic, Congress, in a rare moment of bipartisan unity, rushed to pass a $2.2 trillion relief package.

Yet the effort was delayed as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attempted to exploit the process to realize a long list of completely irrelevant liberal policy goals. After having been forced to back off, she then went on to attack President Trump for being too slow to respond, stating, “As the president fiddles, people are dying.”

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