‘We Really Don’t Care’

“The prospects for a quick agreement between the Trump administration and congressional Democrats on a new round of aid for the ailing economy faded on Wednesday, as President Trump undercut his own party’s efforts to negotiate a deal and a top White House official declared that a lifeline to unemployed workers would run out as scheduled at week’s end,” the New York Times reports.

“With negotiations barely started to find a middle ground between Republicans’ $1 trillion plan and Democrats’ $3 trillion package, Mr. Trump poured cold water on the entire enterprise, saying that he would prefer a bare-bones package that would send ‘payments to the people’ and protect them from being evicted.”

Said Trump: “The rest of it, we’re so far apart, we don’t care. We really don’t care.”