Democrats, Take The Stimulus Deal Already
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🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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The White House, Senate Republicans and the House Democrats are all on completely separate pages about another coronavirus relief package. With the election just three weeks away, is now the best time to strike a deal? And what would it look like?
Guest: Jordan Weissmann, Slate senior economic and business correspondent.
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| 0:00.0 | If you were rooting for Washington to pass another coronavirus relief package, watching the negotiations play out over the last few months, |
| 0:11.7 | it felt a little like being on the sidelines of an especially contentious game of shoots and ladders. |
| 0:18.2 | The Democrats in the House started things off back in May, pushing that |
| 0:21.7 | hefty $3.4 trillion bill. And then Senate Republicans kicked them back to square one. |
| 0:29.1 | The Senate Republicans just didn't even respond at first. They just kind of looked at it like, |
| 0:34.1 | you know, kind of like a turd on the floor. They're like, we're not even addressing that. |
| 0:38.7 | Slate's Jordan Weisseman has been our stimulus correspondent from Go. |
| 0:42.7 | And then finally, Mitch McConnell came back with his $1 trillion offer. |
| 0:46.4 | The Democrats said absolutely not. |
| 0:48.2 | There was that skinny version of the bill, just $500 billion. |
| 0:52.2 | The skinny bill. |
| 0:53.2 | And then the White House went back to negotiating with House Democrats because obviously |
| 0:58.8 | nothing was happening in Congress. |
| 1:00.2 | Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi were not going to have productive conversations. |
| 1:04.9 | And God only knows what is happening inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue right now. |
| 1:11.8 | This weekend, after first pulling out of stimulus negotiations, the president seemed to want |
| 1:17.3 | back in. |
| 1:18.3 | Is the stimulus deal dead? |
| 1:20.3 | Well, no, I don't think it's dead at all. I spoke to secretary. |
| 1:22.9 | A White House advisor even suggested all but handing Nancy Pelosi a blank check. |
| 1:27.6 | Speaker Pelosi is currently offering a $2.2.2 trillion deal. The president wants a bigger package |
| 1:35.6 | than that. So are Secretary Manusian now going to try to offer a bigger deal than a $2.2 |
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