One person told me of the last-minute intervention: "Aides were really frantic, saying: ‘We can’t do this; it will blow up negotiations"

Congress is likely to pass checks of only $600/person, half of what Trump said privately today should be the minimumhttps://t.co/EjcMXoS7in

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) December 18, 2020