House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addresses the press following an unsuccessful meeting with White House officials about a coronavirus stimulus package. | Alex Wong/Getty Images

Democrats want Republicans to come back to the negotiating table so Congress can pass a sweeping stimulus bill.

Democratic leaders argued on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s new executive orders circumventing deadlocked congressional negotiations on coronavirus relief are far from adequate to meet the scope of the crises facing the United States.

“The president’s executive orders described in one word could be: ‘Paltry.’ In three words: ‘Unworkable, weak and far-too-narrow,’” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on ABC’s This Week on Sunday. “As the American people look at these executive orders, they’ll see they don’t come close to doing the job in two ways: One, what they propose, second, what’s left out.”

Trump signed four executive orders at his