Pelosi Chief Of Staff: Trump ‘Traveled To Iraq During’ Shutdown

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) chief of staff responded to President Trump’s cancellation of Pelosi’s trip to Brussels, Afghanistan and Egypt — which was set to take off Thursday afternoon — by explaining the intent of the trip and pointing out that Trump and another Republican had traveled to Iraq during the shutdown.

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  1. She has a chief of staff? With only that job? And one who makes sense?

  2. Avatar for tsp tsp says:

    @Drew_Hammill
    The President traveled to Iraq during the Trump Shutdown as did a Republican CODEL led by Rep. Zeldin.

    The White House responds…

  3. Hey, TPM – You should read your articles. Pelosi was never scheduled to go to Egypt. It says it right there in the Tweet you published.

  4. Avatar for denisj denisj says:

    Next level: no travel to golf courses until shutdown is over.

  5. Avatar for cabchi cabchi says:

    I think Pelosi’s staffer sounded petty and childlike, too. I think he should have said s9meth8ng like this, “Of course, Speaker Pelosi will not do any foreign travel during the shutdown, and unlike Mr. Trump, she hasn’t done so. As to any Sepaker of the House traveling on the country’s business, no president has the constitutional authority to review, let alone prevent, any such trip. This is just another unconstitutional threat by Mr. Trump, which the nation’s military is required to reject.”

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