Pelosi says COVID relief could be attached to omnibus funding bill

Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference on Friday that she would like to attach new coronavirus relief legislation to a government funding omnibus, which must pass within the next week. Pelosi said that she and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had spoken on Thursday about attaching a coronavirus relief bill to the omnibus, although the omnibus must still be written first.

Pelosi's press conference came after a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers introduced a $908 billion coronavirus relief plan earlier this week. Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have said they believe the proposal should form the basis for any further negotiations, and the plan has received support from several Republican senators.

On Friday, Pelosi said that she believed the plan - once written - "could be a basis for real bicameral negotiation."

"There is momentum," Pelosi said about the negotiations. She added that "we have the