Last week, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was on Capitol Hill, speaking with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on his cellphone, when the connection started to go bad. Pelosi invited him over to talk in person. They met in her office, sitting in yellow-striped chairs with a view of the Washington Monument. No aides were in the room.
That sounds like a small gesture. Considering the venom flowing freely between Pelosi and Mnuchin’s boss, though, it’s Capulet and Montague territory. “Mnuchin is operational,” a House Democratic aide with insight into the talks told me, using a term that Pelosi views as a high compliment. “He goes step by step. It’s very similar to the way she approaches things.”
Read Full Article »