Trump Moves Closer to Bipartisan Plan for More Stimulus Spending

President Donald Trump said that he was open to more stimulus spending for pandemic relief in stalled talks with congressional Democrats.

Trump, at a White House press conference on Wednesday evening, said that he liked “the larger numbers” in a compromise $1.5 trillion stimulus proposal from a bipartisan group of House lawmakers that was an effort to break a months-long deadlock over bolstering the U.S. economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“I agree with a lot of it,” Trump said of the plan. “I heard Nancy Pelosi say she doesn’t want to leave until we have an agreement” and “she’s come ...