A source close to the negotiations told Jonathan Swan “the inflection point for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was the letter from Nancy Pelosi telling Trump not to deliver the State of the Union. McConnell had been saying all along that Pelosi and Trump needed to negotiate because one needed to put a bill on the House floor and one needed to sign it — two people with singular power.” But after Pelosi’s letter, it became clear to McConnell she was “never going to get off her position and some other spark needed to happen.” “McConnell told the president that it was his view that Pelosi was never going to move.