Rep. Foster: ‘Difficulty’ with Passing New Stimulus ‘Is Mark Meadows,’

‘The president is not being served well by using him as an interface to Congress’

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FOSTER: “I think you pretty well captured the nature of the conundrum that the President finds himself in. He desperately wants to juice the economy. That is his requirement. It’s clear that Mnuchin is under orders, and the difficulty, as you pointed out, is Mark Meadows. I served with him for many years in the U.S. House and he was a thorn in the side of Paul Ryan and just everyone who tried to deal with him. He refused to negotiate as a matter of ideological principle. I’m not personally surprised that we were able to come up with a compromise when it was Speaker Pelosi and Mnuchin, but I’m not surprised at all that we've failed when you add Mark Meadows into the mix. And the President is not being served well by using him as an interface to Congress."

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