1) It’s like opposite day on a potential coronavirus bill. Or the Twilight Zone.
Nothing makes sense right now.
Nothing makes sense right now.
2) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have different problems. McConnell has a conference which either doesn’t want to do another coronavirus bill – or wants to do the bare minimum.
3) But McConnell’s putting a narrow coronavirus bill on the floor next week. Pelosi has a caucus which wants to do another coronavirus bill. But Pelosi isn’t budging.
4) Pelosi upbraided CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in one of the most contentious interviews the Speaker has ever done late Tuesday afternoon. This comes as President Trump is calling on lawmakers to “go big” with the next coronavirus bill.
5) Just a week ago, President Trump ordered an end to coronavirus negotiations. Yet Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin continued to negotiate. Then Mr. Trump reversed course, pushing for a large coronavirus bill.
6) Yet McConnell is “going small” with his legislation. $500 billion. That's about all Senate GOPers can handle. And Pelosi wants to spend $2.2 trillion – if not more than $3 trillion.
7) Don’t forget that Senate Republicans excoriated Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows over the weekend for offering $1.8 trillion in spending for coronavirus.
8) Deciphering all of this is nearly impossible right now because nothing adds up. And that is precisely why the sides can’t forge any sort of agreement on coronavirus legislation
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