White House negotiators will recommend Trump make executive orders after stimulus talks with Democrats fell apart Friday.

WASHINGTON — White House negotiators say talks with congressional Democrats have fallen apart over a coronavirus stimulus package and they will recommend President Donald Trump take executive action this weekend on a number of programs aimed at helping Americans.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., met for more than two hours Friday with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in a last-ditch attempt to salvage discussions now in their second week.

"The chief and I will recommend to the president, based on our lack of activity today, to move forward with some executive orders." ?

"Yet tragically Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer continue to insist on radical left wing policies." .

Breaking down what Republicans and Democrats want in the coronavirus stimulus plan.

"It's going to take a little bit of time for us to finalize these and process that, but we'll do them as quickly as we can because the president wants action," he said of the executive orders.

"If we can reach an agreement on state and local and unemployment, we will reach an overall deal and if we can't, we can't," Mnuchin said after Friday's meeting, highlighting how central the issue has been to the negotiations. .

When asked about the next steps on a bill, Pelosi said she asked White House negotiators to come back "when you are ready to give us a higher number." 

Mnuchin said there were no plans for another meeting, but he left open the door for further negotiations, telling reporters, "the chief and I will be back here any time to listen to new proposals." 

Pelosi on Friday said Democrats offered to cut down the overall price tag of their proposal by $1 trillion, an attempt to meet in the middle between the House's $3 trillion package and the Senate's $1 trillion measure. 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (R) speaks to reporters alongside Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (L) following continued negotiations with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on a new economic relief bill in response to the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill on August 6, 2020 in Washington, DC

The White House and Congressional Democrats have yet to come to an agreement on what the new relief bill will include despite the CARES Act expiring on July 31st

Schumer, at a news conference Friday afternoon, took aim at Meadows, a former member of Congress and leader of the staunch conservative House Freedom Caucus, saying he was "from the Tea Party" and that there were "20 Republicans in the Senate greatly influenced by them (the Tea Party)" who did not want to spend more on coronavirus relief. 

He said Meadows' role in the talks were another hurdle compared to previous discussions on past coronavirus bills, saying his "positions are quite hardened and non-compromising, more so than Mnuchin." 

Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speak to members of the press after a meeting with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows at the U.S

The impasse in negotiations comes as the country continues to feel economic pain caused by the coronavirus pandemic, raising the stakes for Congress and the White House to rapidly find a solution. 

The Labor Department said Thursday about 1.2 million people filed initial claims for unemployment insurance over the previous week, bringing the total number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits to 55 million since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.  

Senate Minority leader Senator Chuck Schumer told reporters "we are not going to give up