there was a theory that if Trump & Pelosi reached a big stimulus deal R Sens may not have liked it & voted against it, but they’d have to roll let it through w/ frontliners & a few others joining Dems to pass it.

Today’s call makes pretty clear there’s some holes in that theory

The number of GOP senators ripping into Mnuchin/Meadows was above 20, per people on the call.
Words like "betrayal" a "hand grenade," "no appetite" for the spending.
Rick Scott saying flatly: "I don't get it."

Meadows, telling Rs he had to take bad response back to POTUS:
"You will all have to come to my funeral" when he tells POTUS. Mnuchin agreed it wouldn't be received well.
R senators were totally unmoved.

When Sen. Lamar Alexander, considered one of the more even keel & respected Rs in the conference says "there is no appetite" for the $1.8 trillion number the WH proposed to Pelosi, it gives you a sense of how widespread the opposition is among Senate Rs.

Story here with @mkraju:
For anyone who thought Pres. Trump deciding to “go big” would dramatically shift stimulus dynamics that have been in place for months, well, Saturday was a clarifying day: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/10/politics/stimulus-talks-pelosi-senate-gop-trump/index.html