Tag: Nancy Pelosi

Why Pelosi is so good at infuriating Trump

The speaker stands firm against the president like few others.

Something about Nancy Pelosi just gets under Donald Trump’s skin.

On Wednesday, for the third time in barely six months, a meeting between the president, the speaker and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blew up in spectacular fashion.

And in each case, Trump handed Pelosi a huge gift, a priceless moment that helped unify the Democratic Caucus behind her at a crucial time.

Trump cuts off talks with Democrats after Pelosi accuses him of cover-up

NOTE:  Anyone besides us wonder how a spontaneous press conference can come with signage and handouts? That leads us to doubt the issues was Speaker Pelosi’s comment and more about not being able to pull an infrastructure plan together that would he’d be able to get through Congress.

President Trump on Wednesday cut off infrastructure talks with congressional Democratic leaders after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said he was engaged in a “cover up,” then lit into Democrats and declared he would not work with them until their investigations are over.

After their meeting abruptly ended, Trump appeared in the White House Rose Garden and demanded that Democrats “get these phony investigations over with” before talks resume.

“I’ve said from the beginning that you probably can’t go down two tracks,” Trump said. “You can go down the investigation track or you can go down the investment track … We’re going to go down one track at a time.”

View the complete May 22 article by Jordan Fabian on The Hill website here.

Speaker Pelosi to rally Minnesota Democrats at DFL Dinner

DFL Presents Awards to Five Party Leaders at Humphrey-Mondale Dinner

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA — This evening, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi will headline the Minnesota DFL’s 8th Annual Humphrey-Mondale Dinner. Pelosi and DFLers will be celebrating past and present leaders within the DFL and commemorating the 75th anniversary of the party.

“The House Democratic Majority in Washington has been hard at work tackling the toughest issues facing our country, just as the DFL has been doing in Minnesota,” said Speaker Pelosi. “Democrats have led the way on everything from job-creating infrastructure investments to lowering the prices of prescription drugs. Republicans have responded with division, obfuscation and theatrics.”

“It is an honor to celebrate our accomplishments, both legislative and electoral, with so many fine Minnesota Democrats,” added Pelosi. “I’m proud of our record of fighting for the American people and I’m confident that record will carry us to victory in 2020.” Continue reading “Speaker Pelosi to rally Minnesota Democrats at DFL Dinner”

Pelosi: Trump ‘is engaged in a cover-up’

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday accused President Trump of being “engaged in a cover-up” following a special meeting of House Democrats focused on ongoing congressional investigations into the Trump administration.

“We do believe that it is important to follow the facts, we believe that no one is above the law, including the president of the United States, and we believe the president of the United States is engaged in a cover-up, in a cover-up,” Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill.

Her broadside came just moments before she, Senate Minority Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats headed to the White House to meet with Trump on a possible $2 trillion infrastructure package. But the meeting quickly went off the rails after Trump learned of Pelosi’s “cover-up” remarks; the president told the Democrats he couldn’t work with them until they halted all of their “phony investigations.”

View the complete May 22 article by Scott Wong on The Hill website here.

Pelosi says Trump is ‘becoming self-impeachable’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that President Trump is “becoming self-impeachable,” pointing to his efforts to fight all subpoenas from congressional investigations and prevent key aides from testifying before Congress.

“The point is that every single day, whether it’s obstruction, obstruction, obstruction — obstruction of having people come to the table with facts, ignoring subpoenas . . . every single day, the president is making a case — he’s becoming self-impeachable, in terms of some of the things that he is doing,” Pelosi said at a Washington Post Live event. Continue reading “Pelosi says Trump is ‘becoming self-impeachable’”

Pelosi: ‘Trump is goading us to impeach him’

‘Every single day he’s just like taunting, taunting, taunting,’ she said at an event

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that President Donald Trump is trying to bait Democrats into starting impeachment proceedings against him but cautioned that her caucus will only be led to that process by the facts.

“Trump is goading us to impeach him,” the California Democrat said during an event in New York City hosted by the Cornell University Institute of Politics and Global Affairs.

“That’s what he’s doing,” she said. “Every single day he’s just like taunting, taunting, taunting because he knows that it would be very divisive in the country, but he doesn’t really care. He just wants to solidify his base.”

View the complete May 7 article by Lindsey McPherson on The Roll Call website here.

The Memo: Pelosi’s ‘tone-deaf’ remarks raise ire of Team Trump

Senior aides to President Trump are hitting back at Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) after she suggested the president might not leave office if he were only narrowly defeated in the 2020 election.

Kellyanne Conway told The Hill that Pelosi’s argument was “ironic and tone-deaf.”

Conway, who was Trump’s third and final campaign manager in 2016 and is now a top White House adviser, blasted “the inability of [Pelosi’s] party and her party’s failed nominee [Hillary Clinton] to accept the election results of 2016.”

View the complete May 6 article by Niall Stanage on The Hill website here.

Pelosi accuses Barr of committing a crime by lying to Congress

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters during a press conference Thursday that Attorney General Bill Barr did not tell the truth during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee — and “that’s a crime.

“What is deadly serious about it is the attorney general of the United States of America was not telling the truth to the Congress of the United States. That’s a crime. … He lied to Congress. And if anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime. Nobody is above the law. Not the president of the United States, and not the attorney general.”

View the complete May 2 article by Zachary Basu on the Axios website here.

Trump, Pelosi infrastructure talks invite skepticism

K Street sees Tuesday’s meeting between Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and President Trump as a last-chance bid to move on a bipartisan infrastructure deal this year.

At the beginning of the Congress, advocates expressed hope that infrastructure was one of the few issues where House Democrats were likely to work with Trump. But there has been frustration that both sides have made little public progress toward a deal.

Those who spoke to The Hill hoped the Tuesday meeting would give the issue new momentum.

View the complete April 29 article by Alex Gangitano on The Hill website here.

President looms large over McConnell-Pelosi spending ceiling talks

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is trying to build a functional working relationship with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as the two tackle the mammoth task of winning a deal on fiscal spending ceilings for the next year.

McConnell says the deal is his top legislative priority after the April recess, but achieving it won’t be easy.

Democrats are insisting on parity between defense and nondefense spending, arguing any hike for the Pentagon must be equal to that for domestic spending.

View the complete April 17 article by Alexander Bolton on The Hill website here.