Mark Meadows says in Politico interview that he has not spoken to Pelosi or Schumer since talks broke down.
Says his staff reached out to Pelosi staff yesterday but, “I don’t anticipate that we’ll actually get a phone call.”
Meadows tells @JakeSherman that he anticipates Pelosi will hold out and get what she can in connection with Sept 30 government shutdown deadline
“We’re looking at other executive actions” Meadows says, when asked about potential airline furloughs
Meadows also asked by @apalmerdc if he thinks the government could shut down and Trump could get blamed.
“I can tell you the president doesn’t want to shut it down, I don’t want to shut it down,” Meadows says.
Pelosi spox Drew Hammill says a Meadows aide reached out to speaker staff via text asking to confirm that they (Pelosi staff) had the correct number for the chief of staff (Meadows), but that there was no mention of resuming talks (or actual conversation).
Meadows: "I think everybody every time they hear that we're going to do executive actions they don't believe me. We've got four executive actions that actually the president took. We're going to take a few others."
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Thune is pressing Yellen about the nation's "massive amount of debt."
"We seem to have no concern now about borrowing money in the short term" Thune says. "When is it too much?"
"Nobody's talking about it really in either party anymore," he says.
Yellen says most important thing we can do to get on a path of fiscal sustainability is defeat the pandemic.
“To avoid doing what we need to do now to address the pandemic .. would likely leave us in a worse place fiscally and with respect to our debt situation.”
Toomey tells Yellen: "I look forward to working with you but I have to admit that the contours of the stimulus bill as proposed by the Biden administration are going to make that difficult."
Spanberger on the Dem caucus call: We lost races we shouldn’t have lost.
Defund police almost cost me my race bc of an attack ad.
Don’t say socialism ever again.
Need to get back to basics.
(Is yelling.)
If we run this race again we will get fucking torn apart again in 2022, Spanberger says
Pelosi comes back on and says she disagrees, they won the House and presidency
MCCONNELL:
"We need another rescue package. ....
I think we need to do it and I think we need to do it *BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR* .. that's Job One."
Also says he and Pelosi have agreed they want to do an omnibus approps package (NOT a CR) ... and confirm some more judges.
McConnell: "It’s a possibility we will do more for state and local governments."
Wolf Blitzer grilling Pelosi on why she won't take $1.8T deal. Reads Ro Khanna tweet..
Pelosi: "I don’t know why you’re always an apologist and many of your colleagues are apologists for the Republican position-- Ro Khanna, that’s nice. That isn’t what we’re going to do."
Wolf says he's also spoken with Andrew Yang who says take the deal.
Pelosi: "Honest to God, I really can’t get over it. Because Andrew Yang, he’s lovely. Ro Khanna, he’s lovely. They’re not negotiating this situation."
Yikes!
"With all due respect you really don't know what you're talking about" Pelosi tells Wolf Blitzer as he presses her on why she won't take Mnuchin deal.
McConnell: “When the full Senate returns on Oct 19 our first order of business will be voting again on targeted relief.”
Trump: “Go big or go home!!!”
McConnell talking now in Ky. Says new bill will be roughly $500b in targeted relief.
(The one he put on floor last month was $650b - but only $300b was new spending)
McConnell says the new bill will have UI, PPP, and money for schools and hospitals.
"The choice is do you want to do something or nothing. So far they have said if we can’t do everything we want to do we won't do anything. That doesn’t solve the problem."