Trump hits a wall: Pelosi and Schumer
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Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer went to the Oval Office Tuesday to serve notice to Donald Trump that the days of doing and saying whatever he damn well pleases with zero facts to back it up are done. Trump’s factless antics had worked finTrump hits a wall: Pelosi and Schumer
Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer went to the Oval Office Tuesday to serve notice to Donald Trump that the days of doing and saying whatever he damn well pleases with zero facts to back it up are done. Trump’s factless antics had worked fine with a complicit Republican party that did everything possible to keep their Dear Leader pampered and happy, but the pamper party is over. The two Democrats went to the White House to «negotiate in good faith,» as Pelosi put it, over funding to keep the government open. Trump wants $5 billion for the border wall he originally pledged Mexico would pay for but is now demanding the American taxpayers fund. But pouring that much money into a border wall is a nonstarter for congressional Democrats, who will happily put more money into border security, but not a wall that experts say will accomplish very little, if anything. Pelosi clearly went into the meeting hoping for decorum and, perhaps, even some progress in the negotiations. Schumer wanted to make it clear that Democrats hoped to avoid a shutdown, but not if the price tag was $5 billion for a wall. Trump planned to ambush them with all kinds of fantastically false statistics written on flash cards about how the border wall would solve nearly all of the nation’s immigration problems (the fact checks will be fun). That's where the fun began. After Trump said he could get his wall funding passed through the House «in two seconds,» Pelosi explained to Trump that, actually, he doesn't have enough Republican votes in the House to pass $5 billion for the wall. «There are no votes in the House—majority of votes—for a wall,» said Pelosi, widely known as the best vote counter in a generation of House speakers. «Exactly right,» added Schumer. Trump countered, saying that if he wanted, «in one session, it would be done.» Pelosi: «Well then, go do it.» Trump continued to insist he had the votes in the House, but the Senate was the real problem.«It doesn't help because we need 10 Democrats in the Senate,» he said. Before Schumer could jump in, Pelosi reiterated: «The fact is, you do not have the votes in the House.» Read more