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US President Donald Trump bitterly attacked top Democrat Nancy Pelosi on Sunday and she again insisted that he end the government shutdown before border security talks can begin, but there were hints of possible movement in coming days.
Trump lashed out on Twitter a day after Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, dismissed as a “non-starter” his offer to extend temporary protection to about a million immigrants in return for $5.7 billion for the wall he wants on the Mexican border.
“Nancy Pelosi has behaved so irrationally & has gone so far to the left that she has now officially become a Radical Democrat,” the president tweeted. “She is so petrified of the ‘lefties’ in her party that she has lost control.” “...And by the way, clean up the streets in San Francisco, they are disgusting!” he added, in a seemingly gratuitous aside. Pelosi’s congressional district overlaps with San Francisco.
Pointedly ignoring his personal comments, Pelosi on Twitter emphasized the need to end the partial government shutdown, which has inflicted increasing pain around the country as it entered its 30th day.
“800,000 Americans are going without pay,” she tweeted. “Reopen the government, let workers get their paychecks and then we can discuss how we can come together to protect the border. #EndTheShutdown.” - ‘Good-faith compromise’ -While Pelosi and other Democrats dismissed Trump’s offer, Republicans insisted that it represented actual movement by the president.
Vice President Mike Pence, who has been leading the administration’s contacts with Congress, said the Senate would put the proposal to a vote as early as Tuesday. He called it “a good-faith compromise.” The planned vote also reflects a shift by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. He insisted previously that he would not take up any shutdown bill unless both Trump and Democratic leaders backed it.
“In a very real sense, what President Trump did here was he set the table for a deal,” Pence said on “Fox News Sunday.” The bill’s fate was far from clear. Republicans hope to lure the votes of a few Democrats from Trump-friendly states to reach the 60 votes needed, but they may lose some hard-line conservatives in the process.
The Trump administration increasingly blamed by Americans for the shutdown is trying to thread a needle between those hard-liners and Democrats who adamantly oppose spending the $5.7 billion Trump wants for a wall. They have offered something over $2 billion for a range of other border-security measures.
Democrats assailed Trump’s new offer as cynical, noting that it was the president who–by moving earlier to end the DACA program protecting 700,000 young immigrants and to expel some 300,000 others.
Washington
US President Donald Trump bitterly attacked top Democrat Nancy Pelosi on Sunday and she again insisted that he end the government shutdown before border security talks can begin, but there were hints of possible movement in coming days.
Trump lashed out on Twitter a day after Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, dismissed as a “non-starter” his offer to extend temporary protection to about a million immigrants in return for $5.7 billion for the wall he wants on the Mexican border.
“Nancy Pelosi has behaved so irrationally & has gone so far to the left that she has now officially become a Radical Democrat,” the president tweeted. “She is so petrified of the ‘lefties’ in her party that she has lost control.” “...And by the way, clean up the streets in San Francisco, they are disgusting!” he added, in a seemingly gratuitous aside. Pelosi’s congressional district overlaps with San Francisco.
Pointedly ignoring his personal comments, Pelosi on Twitter emphasized the need to end the partial government shutdown, which has inflicted increasing pain around the country as it entered its 30th day.
“800,000 Americans are going without pay,” she tweeted. “Reopen the government, let workers get their paychecks and then we can discuss how we can come together to protect the border. #EndTheShutdown.” - ‘Good-faith compromise’ -While Pelosi and other Democrats dismissed Trump’s offer, Republicans insisted that it represented actual movement by the president.
Vice President Mike Pence, who has been leading the administration’s contacts with Congress, said the Senate would put the proposal to a vote as early as Tuesday. He called it “a good-faith compromise.” The planned vote also reflects a shift by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. He insisted previously that he would not take up any shutdown bill unless both Trump and Democratic leaders backed it.
“In a very real sense, what President Trump did here was he set the table for a deal,” Pence said on “Fox News Sunday.” The bill’s fate was far from clear. Republicans hope to lure the votes of a few Democrats from Trump-friendly states to reach the 60 votes needed, but they may lose some hard-line conservatives in the process.
The Trump administration increasingly blamed by Americans for the shutdown is trying to thread a needle between those hard-liners and Democrats who adamantly oppose spending the $5.7 billion Trump wants for a wall. They have offered something over $2 billion for a range of other border-security measures.
Democrats assailed Trump’s new offer as cynical, noting that it was the president who–by moving earlier to end the DACA program protecting 700,000 young immigrants and to expel some 300,000 others.
