The White House has threatened to veto a $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill that House Democrats hope to bring up for a vote on Friday, UPI.com reported. Known as the HEROES Act, the legislation Democrats unveiled on Tuesday aims to funnel money to state and local governments to address issues that were not included in previous measures and increase funding for the U.S. Postal Service. Since it was announced, Republicans have balked at the package, deriding it as a partisan move filled with expenses unrelated to the coronavirus pandemic, a notion the White House repeated Thursday in its letter to the House of Representatives. "This proposed legislation, however, is more concerned with delivering on longstanding partisan and ideological wishlists than with enhancing the ability of our nation to deal with the public health and economic challenges we face," the Trump administration said. "If H.R. 6800 were presented to the president, his advisors would recommend that he veto the bill." In late March, President Donald Trump signed a more than $2 trillion COVID-19 bailout package, and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said instead of working on a new bill focus should now be on maximizing the effects of the first package. "We now have a debt the size of our economy," McConnell said. "So I've said, and the president has said as well, that we have to take a pause here and take a look at what we've done."
