Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Trump May Sabotage the Next Relief Bill

A late demand by the White House is only making fraught negotiations more difficult.

July 17, 2020 at 11:30 AM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

Too little, too late.
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Difficult negotiations on another economic-stimulus bill got a bit worse on Thursday. And with very little margin for error going in, this is bad news indeed.