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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
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."
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.
"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
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
