House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday appeared to stress the urgency of passing yet another coronavirus relief bill as Republicans suggest waiting to see how states reopening and the distribution of funds already allocated in previous stimulus packages impact the country. 

“Time is very important. We have lost time, but, again, setting aside how we got here, we can not take a pause,” Pelosi said on Sunday during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” 

“They may think it’s OK to pause, but people are hungry across America. Hunger doesn’t take a pause. People are jobless across America. That doesn’t take a pause. People don’t know how they’re going to pay their rent across the country. We have to address this with humanity,” she added. 

Democrats in the House approved a $3 trillion relief package Friday designed to help alleviate the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. 

Republicans in the Senate however, have called the package “dead on arrival,” and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and others have called for a “pause” in passing coronavirus relief bills.

The relief package passed by Democrats included $1 trillion for state and local governments, following calls from Republican and Democratic local leaders for federal funding amid budget constraints due to the outbreak as well as additional money for front-line workers and direct payments to individual households. 

When asked by the host if she could accept liability limits for employers in the post-lockdown work environment, Pelosi said she has “no red lines.” 

“The fact is the best protection for our workers and for their employers is to follow very good (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) mandatory guidelines, and we have that in our bill,” Pelosi said. “And that protects the workers, protects their lives as well as protects the employer if they follow the guidelines.”