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>Two days after President Donald Trump moved to implement scaled-down coronavirus relief without congressional approval, there’s no indication the tactic will get Republicans and Democrats back to the negotiating table for a comprehensive stimulus.

>Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that there are areas where compromise over a massive aid bill is possible and a “fair deal” could be agreed upon. But in an early Monday interview on CNBC he continued to dismiss Democrats’ insistence on almost $1 trillion for aid to state and local governments as “absurd.”