Pelosi Dismisses Trump’s Payroll Tax Cut Demand

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is not interested in President Donald Trump’s payroll tax cut demand and she is explaining why.

The Democratic lawmaker appeared on CNN’s “The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer where they discussed the president’s proposal for a payroll tax cut.

The CNN anchor played a clip from Trump’s virtual town hall meeting on Sunday where he claimed Democrats are pushing for state bailouts. At the time, the president also said that he would not do anything with the next stimulus package unless a payroll tax cut is included.

However, Pelosi has already made it clear she is not budging. Blitzer asked, “So, is a payroll tax cut okay from your point of view, or is it a non-starter?”

“No it is not,” Pelosi responded.

See Pelosi’s remarks below:

Pelosi argues that the coronavirus is the direct cause of the dire financial situation many states are currently facing. She is also blaming the president’s “delayed” response.

“First of all, this is all to be related to the coronavirus,” Pelosi said. “We have enormous, enormous costs, much of it incurred because the President was in denial early on, delayed a reaction to it, caused deaths.”

Pelosi went on to criticize the president, claiming he is attempting to politicize the pandemic by labeling states based on governors’ political parties.