White House recommends Trump issue executive orders on coronavirus aid

• Trump's team has already drafted a series of orders that would implement a payroll tax holiday, address the housing crisis, provide more aid for student loans and make more money available for enhanced unemployment benefits.
• Trump is expected to sign the orders over the weekend.

What they're saying:

• Meadows: "At this point I'm extremely disappointed we came up here today just to hear same thing over and over again the same thing as the last two weeks."
• Mnuchin: "The chief and I will recommend to the president based upon our lack of activity today to move forward with some executive orders — again, we agree with the Speaker, this is not the first choice."
• Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer: "It was a disappointing meeting. We reiterated in very strong terms our offer. We've come down $1 trillion from our top number ... Unfortunately, they rejected it. They said they couldn't go much above their existing $1 trillion and that was disappointing."

• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Democrats view these talks as an "opportunity" to deliver for the American people, "but we can't have it be a missed opportunity to do that by settling for something so low, so beneath meeting the needs of the American people."

What's next: All leaders said they are willing to continue negotiations if the opposing party is open to compromise, but several lawmakers are wary that they'll be able to find common ground.