Developments Saturday morning suggest the chances for a stimulus deal before the November election are “growing extremely remote,” Erica Werner and Jeff Stein of Washington Post report. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this morning that a new $1.8 trillion economic relief proposal from the Trump administration amounts to “one step forward, two steps back.” Meanwhile, Senate Republicans voiced their concerns with the proposal on a conference call Saturday morning with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Werner and Stein report, citing two people familiar with the call.
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