Thread by @JakeSherman

Playbook this morning: @SpeakerPelosi leaves the Covid relief blame on @realDonaldTrump's doorstep

ELECTION DAY IS 5 DAYS away, and both the House and Senate are back home, so there’s little reason to be hopeful for progress on a Covid relief deal.

WE HAVE a brand new letter @SpeakerPelosi sent to @stevenmnuchin1

PELOSI lists all the areas that remain unsolved in the negotiation politico.com/f/?id=00000175…

PELOSI: "[A]s the coronavirus surges and the stock market plummets, we are still awaiting the Trump Administration's promised responses on multiple items of critical importance."

THE AREAS where MNUCHIN still owes PELOSI language or responses include: testing, tracing and treatment, state and local funding, schools, child care, earned income and child tax credits, unemployment insurance, OSHA and liability.

PELOSI is suggesting MNUCHIN and the administration owe her answers on nearly every contentious issue in the Covid relief package. So -- no, the two sides are nowhere close. Not at all. And it doesn’t appear that they have been close throughout the nearly 100 days of talks

WHY DOES THIS MATTER 5 DAYS before ELECTION DAY? Most ppl in Congress agree econ needs another stimulus bill, but lawmakers disagree on the shape and size. And PELOSI’S letter illustrates the administration still owes her a ton of answers. long way to go to a lame duck deal