— guy caligiuri (????????????) (@mmcgrath42) August 17, 2020
Pelosi emphasizes need for COVID-19 deal 'now' https://t.co/mrkfAriRZp pic.twitter.com/joJsQmgHNh
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 19, 2020
Once again, Democrats offer a compromise because people are suffering… I doubt the GOP Death Cult will agree to negotiate, which is not the best look for Repub Senators running for reelection right now:
… “We have to try to come to that agreement now,” Pelosi said in an online interview with Politico. “We’re willing to cut our bill in half to meet the needs right now. We’ll take it up again in January. We’ll see them again in January. But for now, we can cut the bill in half.”
A senior House Democratic aide said Pelosi was reiterating a standing call by Democrats for the White House and Republicans to meet them “half way” on coronavirus relief.
Pelosi also said she did not want to wait to reach a deal at the end of September, when Congress will need to agree on funding to keep the government open during the next federal fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
The Democratic-led House passed legislation with over $3 trillion in relief in May. Democrats offered this month to reduce that sum by $1 trillion, but the White House rejected it…
Meanwhile, Big Business is leaning on Mnuchin to pull up his socks and tell Meadows to stop playing games:
Cool thing about this is Trump manages to (1) hand Dems a legit argument about Trump trying to defund Social Security (2) upset employers (3) anger GOP Senators (4) blow up negotiations with the House (5) without actually even managing to deliver short-term tax relief. https://t.co/KKIdR2R3o2
— Jonathan Bernstein (@jbview) August 18, 2020
Elsewhere, FiveThirtyEight — in its attempt to be Hip with the Kewl Media Kidz — is embarrassing itself:
You either die a Silver or live long enough to become a Cillizza. https://t.co/3u9flE7LTh
— Tentin Quarantino (@agraybee) August 19, 2020
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