Meadows: 'We're not going to extend' $600 unemployment benefit

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Sunday reiterated that the Trump administration and Senate Republicans won't extend a $600 boost in unemployment benefits in a forthcoming coronavirus relief package.

In an interview on ABC's "This Week," Meadows argued the original unemployment insurance measure, which has begun expiring, shouldn't be extended because it "paid people to stay home" and disincentivized unemployed people from finding work. The administration has instead pushed for an unemployment provision that would replace up to 70 percent of workers' wages.

"The original unemployment benefits actually paid people to stay home and actually a lot of people got more money staying at home than they would going back to work," Meadows said. "So the president has been very clear, our Republican senators have been very clear, we're not going to extend that provision."