Within twenty-four hours of being airlifted back to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, still infectious and highly medicated, Donald Trump returned to his favorite pastimes of immiserating workers and writing streams of contradictory Twitter rants. On Tuesday, he declared negotiations over further stimulus spending dead, and with it any chance of relief for the tens of millions of people who are out of work, going hungry, and at risk of homelessness.

The announcement came abruptly via Twitter:

Nancy Pelosi is asking for $2.4 Trillion Dollars to bailout poorly run, high crime, Democrat States, money that is in no way related to COVID-19 . . . I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election when, immediately after I win, we will pass a major Stimulus Bill that focuses on hardworking Americans and Small Business. I have asked @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell . . . to instead focus full time on approving my outstanding nominee to the United States Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett.