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. and this morning, we have a brand new letter Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Pelosi lists all the areas that remain unsolved in the negotiation -- and they happen to be precisely the areas where Washington’s Most Eager Man has not been terribly eager to send Pelosi counter-offers. 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 ... (full story)

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