The point about the X-date is that we don’t know when it is until we hit it and we shouldn’t be trying to find out.”Īssociated Press White House correspondent Zeke Miller contributed to this report. EDT President Donald Trump displays a poster as he talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in March 2018. “Whether it’s June 1 or June 5, we have waited far too long already,” she said. Maya MacGuineas, president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said the new letter “shouldn’t mean anything other than we need to get this deal signed into law.” “Hopefully that can get a deal this weekend,” Phillips said. “I think the legislative timeline dictated that they needed a deal by tomorrow, more or less, and this essentially adds four days to the timeline.” “We were a little surprised that it came out today instead of waiting until after the weekend,” Phillips said.
could exhaust all extraordinary measures in early June and as soon as June 1, but the latest deadline affords lawmakers and the White House more time to strike a deal.Īlec Phillips, chief political economist at Goldman Sachs Research, said while the projected X-date is not surprising - as the investment bank projected that it would fall in the week of June 5 - the timing of the letter’s release was surprising “given the state of negotiations.”
The latest projection is in line with her previous estimates that the U.S. Former President Donald Trump (right) meets with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office on March 20, 2018, in Washington, D.C.
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