Pelosi suddenly wants to do a deal, for more than $1 trillion less after the election is done. You have to forgive those who see this as a political move.
Now that she is confident that Joe Biden is about to be sworn in as president, she is
President Trump did not stand in her way, as he had been in favor of spending considerably more in a relief package, that included stimulus checks.
But the likely scenario is that Pelosi was terrified of the idea of people receiving stimulus checks before the election and giving credit to the president.
She would not admit that she reversed herself or made a mistake in holding out for the $2 trillion she initially demanded which would have given more aid to state and local governments. Pelosi, instead, characterized it as a partial win.
“This has simplicity. It’s what we had in our bills. But that’s okay now,” the Speaker said. Pelosi said that in January next will be a “new president” who is going to “depend on science” and “understands America’s working families need to have money in their pockets … without any of the entrapments the [Trump] administration was insisting on being in the package.”
