Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her deputies are scrambling to nail down a shutdown-averting spending bill, a caucus-unifying prescription drug bill and a continent-spanning trade deal — all before Christmas. And that doesn’t include the widely anticipated vote to impeach President Donald Trump, potentially even in the same week…
Pelosi has privately signaled to her leadership team and vulnerable Democrats that she doesn’t want impeachment to be the last vote the House takes before leaving for the two-week holiday recess, according to multiple lawmakers and aides.
“She wants to not have impeachment and then walk out of the door. She wants something before and after,” one Democratic lawmaker said, on plans to stack votes on other policy issues the same week as impeachment. “A big impeachment sandwich.”
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