It was Trump’s last act of real power. While the president golfed, the benefits on which millions of Americans depended were cut off, the government faced shutdown, defense spending was in limbo, and the fragile stimulus compromise began to disintegrate. Reverting to the House Democrats’ more ambitious agenda, Pelosi piled in behind those calling for bigger checks. Meanwhile, the high priest of Clinton-era centrism Larry Summers took to the airwaves to declare that stimulus checks to the tune of $2,000 would likely cause the economy to overheat.13 Anything on which Trump, Sanders, and Hawley
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