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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Monday, December 21, 2020. I'm John Poghortz, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always.

Senior writer Christine Rosen, hi Christine.

Hi John.

Executive editor, A Greenwald, hi Abe.

Hi John.

And associate editor, Noel Rothman, hi Noah.

Hi John.

So guys, late last night, apparently, we've now cleared the decks and there will be a $900 billion stimulus package,

which of course raises the question, why wasn't there a $900 billion stimulus package two months ago or three months ago,

and who's to blame?

And Democrats always want to blame Mitch McConnell.

And it was Nancy Pelosi who said the $2 billion wasn't enough as I recall in September.

So I don't know why she isn't more to blame since this is pretty close to the number that Republicans said they were comfortable with and that she is now agreed to, but fine.

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