A few things to know about the COVID relief and omnibus package we passed in the House and Senate yesterday and the risks / causes of Trump's shenanigans over the last 24 hours:
1/ I am not a mind-reader and with this much in flux am not inclined to offer "hot takes". This is just about the stakes so you all can understand what's at stake.
2/ The bill we passed was $900B of COVID-specific relief AND a long-overdue omnibus funding package to fund government for the next year. If he doesn't sign this bill it risks not only COVID relief, but also a government shutdown.
3/ The House passed COVID relief bills in June. The House also passed appropriations bills this summer that the Senate didn't budge on. We are at this late juncture because McConnell chose not to act sooner.
4/ Any claims that there was another deal we could have closed sooner presumes that such a deal existed. At best, we had bullet points from Mnuchin, but nothing that had passed the Senate.
5/ The bill we passed yesterday was passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities in both chambers. It was not everything anyone wanted but was the result of compromise with the House, Senate and WH.
6/ It was no one's understanding, on either side of the aisle that Trump was ignorant of what his negotiators were doing.
$2000 payments weren't passed because his negotiators refused to go above $600.
$2000 payments weren't passed because his negotiators refused to go above $600.
7/ Trump is acting now as a free-agent, working under the assumption that no one in the @GOP will ever stand up to him or hold him accountable for proving, on a consistent basis that he is completely untrustworthy and unfit to hold the highest office in the land.
8/ Trump is incompetent. But this doesn't happen without the utter failure of leadership within the elected @GOP. /fin
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