Pelosi said Thursday that Senate GOP opposition to what she and Mnuchin are working on is not her problem. has said publicly that it would be difficult to get 13 Senate Republicans to support a deal along the lines of what Pelosi and Mnuchin are discussing. Privately, multiple Senate GOP aides said getting 13 GOP votes for a big bill brokered by Pelosi and Mnuchin simply could not happen. “There are not 13 votes for this pile of crap Mnuchin is capitulating on,” said a third Senate GOP aide familiar with the discussions. But Trump’s approach in the talks has been inconsistent, and it’s not clear that the president would or could bring Senate Republicans along if Pelosi and Mnuchin struck a deal.

Source: Washington Post October 22, 2020 17:36 UTC