Cases of coronavirus are surging in the US. The White House is expanding its offer in up-and-down Covid-19 service talks Friday in hopes of exchange before Election Day, even as President Donald Trump’s most influential GOP partner in the Senate said Congress is unlikely to deliver relief by then. Trump on Friday took to Twitter to declare: “COVID Relief Negotiations are moving along. Go Big!”

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A top economic adviser said the Trump team was raising its offer in advance of a Friday conversation between Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The two had a conversation lasting for more than 30 minutes Friday afternoon, said Pelosi's spokesman Drew Hammill. A GOP aide familiar with the new offer said it is about $1.8 trillion, with a key state and local fiscal relief component moving from $250 billion to at least $300 billion. The White House says its most recent prior offer was about $1.6 trillion. The aide requested anonymity because the negotiations are being kept private.

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“I would like to see a bigger stimulus package than either the Democrats or Republicans are offering,” Trump said on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show Friday. Earlier this week, Trump whipped Democrats for their demands on an aid bill. Pelosi’s most recent public offer was about $2.2 trillion, though that included a business tax increase that Republicans won’t go for. But GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told an audience in Kentucky that he doesn’t see a deal coming together soon out of a “murky” situation in which the participants in the negotiations are elbowing for political advantage.

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