Meadows Predicts No Stimulus Deal Until End of September
- White House chief sees Pelosi waiting until funding deadline
- Pelosi has said stopgap bill should be separate from stimulus
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White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows predicted there will be no stimulus deal with Congress until the end of September, and sought to blame House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the delay.
“If we got back in the room with some of their priorities, we could cut a deal -- the president wants to do that. But I’m not optimistic,” Meadows said in an interview with Politico on Wednesday. Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said by email that the speaker’s position remains that to restart talks the White House “must meet us halfway” between the top-line numbers on the package.