Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he will not pass a coronavirus relief bill in the Senate which does not include liability protections. 

“We’re not negotiating over liability protection,” he told CNBC as Congress looks to craft a pandemic aid agreement. 

Senate Republicans released their coronavirus rescue proposal on Monday. It includes a cut to the enhanced $600 per week federal unemployment benefit, another round of direct payments to Americans, liability protections for businesses and doctors and more funding for Paycheck Protection Program small business loans. 

McConnell spoke shortly before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., planned to meet with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for the second straight day. The group will try to hash out differences between Republicans and Democrats on how best to boost an economy and health-care system ravaged by the coronavirus. 

Congress faces pressure to quickly approve new relief, as states stopped paying out the extra federal unemployment benefit last week. Roughly 30 million people are still receiving some form of unemployment insurance as coronavirus cases increase around the country. 

A federal moratorium on evictions also expired last week.

In a joint statement Tuesday, Pelosi and Schumer said that “catastrophe is looming, and until Senate Republicans get serious, they must answer to every hungry child, every family that cannot make rent, every worker being denied their UI for their delays.” 

“Democrats remain ready to work with Republicans on real solutions to bring immediate relief and save lives and livelihoods,” they said.

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