House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi warned that a deal on a long-term spending bill could still be thwarted by extraneous provisions, or so-called poison pills.
“The poison pill list is still a considerably long list we have to get rid of,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters Thursday.
A temporary spending bill runs out on Friday. The House has prepared a week-long extension, but Pelosi threatened to block that, too, unless a larger deal is truly imminent.
Pelosi said there are dozens of poison pills, among them an attempt by the GOP to undo Obama-era financial regulatory reform known as the fiduciary rule.
Pelosi called the move “a giveaway to their friends” that would undermine the Wall Street reforms passed by Democrats in the previous decade.
“They want to take us back to where we were before the meltdown of our economy in 2008,” Pelosi said.
