Could this Trump tweet mean a second stimulus check is coming?

[Andy Meek]

• President Trump used his Twitter account to call on Republicans to pass a new stimulus bill, ignoring their arguments for the last several weeks that Democratic ideas have been too expensive to consider.
• Trump's tweet also supported the idea of a new round of stimulus payments, with the president saying that Americans "desperately" need the new money.
• Democrats and Republicans in Congress have been at an impasse for weeks now over a new coronavirus stimulus bill.

In life, timing is everything, and if you read between the lines of a new tweet from President Trump that calls on Republicans to pass a huge new stimulus bill, you can't help but assume at least one thing: The president must surely be aware of the fact that time is running out for him to curry enough favor with voters to win re-election, come November.

How else to explain the fact that he's been mostly silent as Republicans and Democrats in the Senate -- with House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin occasionally joining the fray -- fought each other to a stalemate over a new stimulus package. The Democrat-controlled House sent a new stimulus measure stuffed to the gills with benefits and billions in aid to the GOP-controlled Senate, where it died on the vine in the face of Republicans whose main priority has now switched to keeping the stimulus price tag as low as possible. The end result -- no new bill. And now, after a few weeks of nothing happening, President Trump floated into the maw by lobbing a tweet at no one in particular which seems to undercut Republicans' entire attitude toward a new stimulus bill over the last several weeks.

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