Because it's 1800 pages, there are good things and bad things in it. A trillion dollars for cities and states and maybe an additional $1,200 stimulus check will be the main things that survive if Republicans come back to the table, so I'm not going to spend much time on the rest. You want to read about the bad stuff, this rundown has you covered. The K Street bailout I mentioned yesterday is in there, as well as weird stuff like Federal Reserve backstops for landlords and debt collectors.

Jayapal was told there was no legislative language for her bill, but that was by design--the office of lawyers who translate member desires into legislative text faces a backlog amid the D.C. shutdown. So they're only writing up bills from the leadership. This is a total freeze-out that's been going on for months. And Jayapal and her co-chair of the Progressive Caucus Mark Pocan finally called Pelosi on it. They asked for a delay in the bill, scheduled for a vote Friday, to allow for discussion and amendments.

But at the same time, a dozen progressive D.C. groups that previously stood with Jayapal, including on payroll support, jumped in to back Pelosi's bill. This eliminated whatever support Jayapal might have had for her efforts; her ideological backers weren't even on board. Pelosi found it easy to dismiss the request for delay.

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