CNBC reports:
President Donald Trump will not support a coronavirus relief deal that includes “voting rights” provisions backed by Democrats, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said Thursday.
“So much of the Democratic asks are really liberal, left wish lists — voting rights and aid to aliens and so forth,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” when asked about the administration’s stalled aid talks with Democratic leaders.
“That’s not our game, and the president can’t accept that kind of deal,” the director of the National Economic Council continued. “So, we’ll wait and see on the negotiations. Treasury Secretary [Steven] Mnuchin is working on that, but so far it’s a stalemate.”
Larry Kudlow labeled voting rights funding a “really liberal left” wish list item today, slamming congressional Democrats for their coronavirus relief package demands https://t.co/dlLhY9wWqB
— POLITICO (@politico) August 13, 2020
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, just now: “We don’t want voting rights” pic.twitter.com/VICq7J25if
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) August 13, 2020
! Larry Kudlow today: “So much of the Democratic asks are really liberal left wishlists we don’t want to have — voting rights, and aid to aliens, and so forth. That’s not our game.”
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) August 13, 2020