Vice President Pence was scheduled to meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., earlier Tuesday morning.
President Donald Trump alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., talks to the media about Robert Mueller's report upon arriving for the Senate Republican Policy luncheon in the Capitol on Tuesday, March 26, 2019.President Donald Trump plans to come to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to have lunch with Republicans, two GOP sources told NBC News, as the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic enters a new phase.
The president's lunch meeting, reportedly scheduled for around 12 p.m. ET, comes as Republicans and Democrats trade barbs over what provisions should be included in additional legislation to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic.that GOP leaders are "looking at ways of where we can work together to move forward on what we do need" in a legislative package. That search would start with liability protections for doctors and businesses, McCarthy said.
"Liability protections would be the No. 1 thing I would look at," McCarthy said. "No bill will pass without it." Republicans have already written off the $3 trillion bill, which passed the Democrat-led House on Friday, as a non starter.
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