Pelosi Unveils 48-Hour Deadline for White House on Stimulus Talks

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks about stalled congressional talks with the Trump administration on the latest pandemic relief during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Aug. 13, 2020. Sarah Silbiger/Reuters

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gave the Trump administration a 48-hour deadline to reconcile differences in a stimulus package.

“Where we have agreement, we don’t have agreement in the language yet, but I’m hopeful,” Pelosi said on ABC’s “This Week” on Oct. 18. “The difference amounts to this, if you think of it this simple way: When you say ’may,' you’re giving the president a slush fund,” she said. “He may do this, he may grant, he may withhold.”