Pelosi Responds To Trump Folding: Reopen Gov ‘Then Negotiate Our Differences’

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks to the media following a meeting with US President Donald Trump about the partial government shutdown at the White House in Washington, DC, January 9, 2019. - Trump stormed... US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks to the media following a meeting with US President Donald Trump about the partial government shutdown at the White House in Washington, DC, January 9, 2019. - Trump stormed out of negotiations Wednesday on funding a US-Mexico border wall when Democratic opponents said they would not agree to the project. "A total waste of time," Trump tweeted about his meeting with top Democratic congressional leaders. "I said bye-bye, nothing else works!" US Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer told journalists: "The president just got up and walked out." (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi responded to President Trump’s decision to back down from the State of the Union fight by urging Trump to support a spending package that would reopen the government.

After a day of back-and-forth between Trump and Pelosi, Trump eventually caved, tweeting it was Pelosi’s “prerogative” to change the date of the address.

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  1. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Nancy Pelosi is magnificent!

  2. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    Has anyone noticed how, um, “Presidential” she sounds? (I would have said something about “statesmanship”, but that gender signifier is particularly inapt in these times.)

  3. Tired old leadership. Not a fighter, too beholden to special interests, not going to effectively challenge Trump. Didn’t it go something like that?

    What say ye now, fellas?

  4. Where would we be now if the Dems hadn’t retaken the House and put Pelosi at the helm? We’d be way beyond Never, Never Land.

  5. Makes you shudder just thinking about it, doesn’t it?

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