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With election and shutdown risk looming, pressure grows for stimulus deal (Commentary by Richard Arenberg)

“I believe that the political pressures generated by the continuing COVID-19 pandemic crisis and the deepening economic crisis will likely end in a compromise...Doing nothing before the election would impact President Trump's reelection efforts negatively and have an even larger impact on the GOP’s effort to remain in the majority in the Senate," said Interim Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, and Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Richard Arenberg.

September 2, 2020 ABC6

“I believe that the political pressures generated by the continuing COVID-19 pandemic crisis and the deepening economic crisis will likely end in a compromise...Doing nothing before the election would impact President Trump's reelection efforts negatively and have an even larger impact on the GOP’s effort to remain in the majority in the Senate," said Interim Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, and Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Richard Arenberg.

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