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Pelosi Says It's Tuesday or Bust if White House Wants a Pre-Election Stimulus Package: Report
The House Speaker said if a deal isn't reached by Tuesday evening, a package won't be likely before Nov. 3.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the Democrat-majority U.S. House of Representatives, told the White House on Sunday it has until Tuesday to reach a deal on a pandemic stimulus package or it would be unlikely to be passed before the presidential election, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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- If no deal is reached by Tuesday evening, even if negotiations continue and are eventually successful, it's unlikely to produce a package before the Nov. 3 election, the WSJ said, quoting an aide to the Senate Democrat.
- House Democrats are seeking a $2.2 trillion relief package. While President Donald Trump has said he's prepared to go beyond his $1.8 trillion proposal, Senate Republicans, who are in the majority, are in favor of a much more modest package and may not support him.
- If a package isn't passed by the election, it might be well into February before one happens, the WSJ said, quoting Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.).
- Why this matters to crypto: Bitcoin (BTC) prices have been buoyed this year as investors bet that trillions of dollars of government and central bank spending around the world in response to the coronavirus-induced economic slowdown will inevitably result in inflation, and therefore be positive for the cryptocurrency.
- As such, if a stimulus deal is reached, BTC may rise further.
Kevin Reynolds
Kevin Reynolds was the editor-in-chief at CoinDesk. Prior to joining the company in mid-2020, Reynolds spent 23 years at Bloomberg, where he won two CEO awards for moving the needle for the entire company and established himself as one of the world's leading experts in real-time financial news. In addition to having done almost every job in the newsroom, Reynolds built, scaled and ran products for every asset class, including First Word, a 250-person global news/analysis service for professional clients, as well as Bloomberg's Speed Desk and the training program that all Bloomberg News hires worldwide are required to take. He also turned around several other operations, including the company's flash headlines desk and was instrumental in the turnaround of Bloomberg's BGOV unit. He shares a patent for a content management system he helped design, is a Certified Scrum Master, and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He owns bitcoin, ether, polygon and solana.
