House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had never been so powerful as when she delivered President Trump his most crippling political blow with the culmination of the government shutdown in January of last year. Democrats had retaken the House in a grueling midterm election for Republicans, and Pelosi had effectively kneecapped whatever remained of Trump’s dreams of passing any real immigration reform, let alone the wall, before the 2020 election.

A little over a year later, Pelosi decided to play partisan poker with the coronavirus crisis, attempting to blow up immediate cash relief negotiations in the hopes of passing her own Christmas list, including but not limited to: