她和姆努钦定于周二下午3点通过电话交谈。
“我认为我们必须在下周结束前完成这项工作。为了做到这一点，我们必须在本周结束前完成立法。佩洛西说:“然后你就有了72小时的程序性审查，让全世界都看到。”。
佩洛西还指出，众议院和参议院拨款委员会正在研究冠状病毒协议的具体方面，但没有她希望的那样快。
众议院拨款委员会的一名助手告诉美国广播公司新闻，根据佩洛西和姆努钦的时间表，他们正在尽可能快地工作，但双方仍相差数十亿美元。
但佩洛西说，她仍然乐观地认为可以达成协议，甚至称赞政府“最终”想“粉碎病毒”。
“我很乐观，因为我确实认为我们有一个共同的价值——不是很多，而是一个共同的价值，最后，他们想消灭病毒。这与上周末相比有所不同，”佩洛西说。
“正如秘书和我对彼此说的那样，如果我们不相信我们能完成这件事，我们为什么还要互相交谈呢?”佩洛西说。
2020年9月24日，美国财政部长史蒂文·姆努钦在参议院银行、住房和城市事务委员会听证会上作证，审查提交给国会的《关心法案》季度报告。
民主党和白宫之间的谈判仍然存在一些主要障碍，在过去几个月里，这些障碍没有改变:对工人的责任保护以及对地方和州政府的资助。
佩洛西说，她预计在周二下午与Mnuchin的电话中结束测试和跟踪语言，她说，她将反对政府关于OSHA和责任保护的提议。
“我们现在分歧的两个书立...一个是州和地方，另一个是责任，现在当我在三点钟和部长说话的时候，我认为我们将会用语言来反驳他们在法案中的内容，因为工作场所的安全对我们来说不是一个问题，它不是法案的一个条款，它是一个价值，”佩洛西说。
当被问及她是否有信心参议院共和党人会支持佩洛西-姆努钦协议时，佩洛西回答说:“总统说他们会的。”
参议院多数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔(Mitch McConnell)周二表示，如果该法案获得众议院通过并得到唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统的支持，他将允许对该法案进行投票。
麦康奈尔周二对记者表示:“如果总统支持的法案在某个时候获得众议院通过，我们将把它提交给众议院。”。
麦康奈尔一再表示，他不相信他能在会议上得到许多人支持一项比他以前提出的有针对性的立法更昂贵的提议。
周一，第二位共和党参议员，南达科他州的约翰·图恩告诉记者，“很难”让参议院共和党支持一项1.8万亿美元的提案。图恩说，众议院的共和党支持对于参议院的争论是必要的。
“如果他们同意一些他们必须在众议院以所有民主党人的选票通过的事情，我的猜测是，领导人将希望看到一些证据，表明无论达成什么协议，都有共和党的支持，以试图说服这里的共和党人支持它，”图恩说。“当他们的自然本能取决于它有多大和里面有什么可能会反对它。”
相反，麦康奈尔正在走自己的路，迫使参议院本周进行两次注定失败的投票。第一项计划预计于周二出台，旨在补充3月份通过的最后一项救助法案所创建的小企业贷款计划。周三，参议院将对价值约5000亿美元的成对向下救助方案进行投票，重点是对共和党人重要的关键领域。
共和党法案包含1000多亿美元用于教育需求，数十亿美元用于冠状病毒疫苗、病毒测试和跟踪，补充受欢迎的小企业贷款计划，失业援助和诉讼保护。
少数党领袖查克·舒默(Chuck Schumer)已经表示，这些努力将在民主党人手中失败，他们认为有必要采取更强有力的措施。
Pelosi says pandemic relief deal with White House possible, extends 'deadline'
After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared a self-imposed Tuesday deadline to wrap up negotiations on a nearly $2 trillioncoronaviruspandemic relief bill so that it can be voted on before Election Day, she is now softening her tone, giving both sides more room to continue negotiations.
But Pelosi insists that if a bill is to be voted on before Election Day, it needs to be finalized and written by the end of this week.
In aninterviewTuesday with Bloomberg TV, Pelosi said the Tuesday deadline isn't necessarily a day in which a deal with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin must be reached, but rather, one last opportunity for both sides to bring forth their final terms of agreement.
"It isn't that this day was a day that we would have a deal, today was a day where we would have our terms on the table to be able to go the next step," the California Democrat said, noting that legislation and procedural hurdles take a "long time" to figure out before a final product is on the table.
"I'm a legislator, they're not necessarily legislators, so I'm trying to impress upon them: if we want to have this by Election Day and I think we can, we have to engineer back from there to this week," Pelosi said.
"Hopefully by the end of the day today, we'll know wherever we all are," Pelosi said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces her plans for Congress during a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington, Oct. 9, 2020.
She and Mnuchin were set to speak Tuesday afternoon by phone at 3 p.m.
"I would think we have to have this finished by the end of next week. In order for that, we have to have our legislation all written by the end of this week. Then you have all your procedural 72 hours of review for the world to see," Pelosi said.
Pelosi also noted that the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, which are working on specific aspects of the coronavirus deal, aren't working as fast as she hoped.
An aide to the House Appropriations Committee told ABC News that they are working as fast as they can according to Pelosi and Mnuchin's timeline but the two sides remain billions of dollars apart.
But Pelosi says she remains optimistic that a deal can be reached, and even gave credit to the administration for "finally" wanting to "crush the virus."
"I’m optimistic because I do think we have a shared value – not many, but a shared value, finally, that they want to crush the virus. And that’s been a change from over the weekend," Pelosi said.
"As the secretary and I say to each other, if we didn't believe we could get this done, why would we even be talking to each other?" Pelosi said.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testifies during a Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing examining the quarterly CARES Act report to Congress, in Washington, DC, Sept. 24, 2020.
There are still some major snags in negotiations between Democrats and the White House, which haven't changed over the course of the last several months: liability protections for workers and funding for local and state government.
Pelosi said she anticipates wrapping up the testing and tracing language Tuesday afternoon during her call with Mnuchin, and she said she will counter the administration's proposal on OSHA and liability protections.
"The two bookends of our differences right now ... one is state and local, and the other is liability and right now by the time I speak to the secretary at three o'clock, I think that we will have language countering what they have in the bill because safety in the workplace for us is not an issue, it's not a provision of the bill, it is a value," Pelosi said.
Asked if she was confident that Senate Republicans will come around to supporting the Pelosi-Mnuchin deal, Pelosi responded: "The president says they will."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said he would allow a vote on the bill if it clears the House and has the support of President Donald Trump.
"If a presidentially-supported bill clears the House at some point, we’ll bring it to the floor," McConnell told reporters Tuesday.
McConnell has said repeatedly that he does not believe he can get many in his conference behind a more expensive proposal than his previously proposed targeted legislation.
On Monday, the second-ranking Republican senator, John Thune of South Dakota, told reporters "it'd be hard" to get the Senate GOP behind a $1.8 trillion proposal. Republican support on the House side will be necessary to wrangle the Senate, Thune said.
"If they agree to something they have to pass in the House with all Democratic votes my guess is the Leader is going to want to see some evidence that whatever is agreed upon has Republican support to try to convince Republicans over here to be for it," Thune said. "When their natural instinct depending on how big it is and what's in it is probably going to be to be against it."
McConnell is instead going his own way, forcing two votes in the Senate this week that are destined to fail. The first, expected Tuesday, is an effort to replenish the small business loan program created by the last relief bill passed in March. On Wednesday, the Senate will vote on a paired down relief package, worth about $500 billion, focusing on key areas of importance to Republicans.
The GOP bill contains more than $100 billion for education needs, billions for a coronavirus vaccine, virus testing and tracing, a replenishment of the popular small business loan program, unemployment assistance, and a litigation shield.
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has already signaled that these efforts will fail at the hands of Democrats, who have argued that a more robust approach is necessary.
