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Trump Storms Out Of "Waste Of Time" Meeting With Schumer
And Pelosi
9
January, 2014
President
Trump fumed on Wednesday after walking out of a "waste of time"
meeting with Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), after the
Democratic leaders refused to approve any type of funding for his
wall.
"Just
left a meeting with Chuck and Nancy, a total waste of time. I asked
what is going to happen in 30 days if I quickly open things up, are
you going to approve Border Security which includes a Wall or Steel
Barrier? Nancy said, NO. I said bye-bye, nothing else works!"
tweeted Trump.
Vice
President Mike Pence confirmed Trump's account of the meeting, noting
that after Pelosi said "No" to the wall funding, Trump
"said goodbye."
The way that Democrats just behaved in our meeting at the @WhiteHouse is embarrassing. They need to get back into the room and get serious about solving the crisis at the border.
Pelosi
and Schumer spoke after the meeting - with Pelosi repeating her
talking points from her Tuesday night response to President Trump's
oval office address.
"Federal workers
will not be receiving their paychecks," said Pelosi. "And
what that means in their lives is tragic in terms of their credit
rating and their mortgage and their rent and their children's tuition
and all the rest. The President seems to be insensitive to that - he
thinks maybe they can just ask their father for more money,
but they can't."
Schumer, meanwhile, said
it was impossible to negotiate with "a petulant
president of the United States,"
telling reporters that Trump "didn't get his way and he just
walked out of the meeting."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer: President Trump immediately got up and walked out of their meeting when Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats wouldn't agree to fund a border wall. "We saw a temper tantrum” pic.twitter.com/opMQi7Qpu1
Trump
met with the Democratic leaders at the White House to discuss border
security following his prime-time remarks from the Oval Office on
Tuesday night, where he said that the partial government shutdown
"could be resolved in a 45-minute meeting."
The
president has demanded $5.7 billion in funding for his wall, while
Democrats have only offered $1.3 billion in funding for non-wall
border security measures already penciled into the budget.
On
Wednesday Trump threatened to declare a national emergency in order
to build the wall, a move which Democrats have questioned the
legality of.
Meanwhile
- ahem:
Chuck and Nancy approved 500 Million for a 287 mile long concrete border war in Jordan less than a year ago! davidharrisjr.com/politics/pelos…
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