Tag: Nancy Pelosi

‘Such a puff piece’: Nancy Pelosi unleashed on Trump in a ‘60 Minutes’ interview, and the president isn’t happy

President Trump lashed out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday night and again on Monday morning on Twitter following a CBS “60 Minutes” interview during which she recounted standing up to him and reiterated her opinion that he is unfit for office and knows it.

“There’s nobody in the country who knows better that he should not be president of the United States than Donald Trump,” Pelosi told CBS’s Lesley Stahl in a roughly 14-minute segment that aired Sunday. In the wide-ranging interview, Pelosi touted Democrats’ achievements in their first 100 days in control of the House of Representatives while also discussing last December’s heated Oval Office showdown over funding for Trump’s border wall, her now-famous State of the Union clap and the power she holds in her current position.

Pelosi’s comments did not appear to go over well with Trump.

View the complete April 15 article by Allyson Chiu on The Washington Post website here.

Join us for the 8th Annual Humphrey-Mondale Dinner

The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party is pleased to announce Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the keynote speaker for the Eighth Annual Humphrey-Mondale Dinner on Friday, May 24th at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The event will be special this year in that we will also be celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Minnesota DFL.

WHAT:  Humphrey-Mondale Dinner

WHEN:  Friday, May 24, 2019, 6:00 PM

WHERE:  Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 2nd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN

Tickets are now available with various ticket and table options. Please click here or on the invite below to reserve your spot today. The Eighth Annual Humphrey-Mondale dinner will sell out very quickly, so please reserve your tickets today.

‘Target practice’: Critics slam NRA’s headline next to Pelosi, Giffords photo in magazine

Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) escorts former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at the U.S. Capitol. Credit: Ricky Carioti, The Washington Post

Next to a photo of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and former Arizona lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords were the words “Target Practice.”

It was the headline of a story in the National Rifle Association’s American Rifleman magazine, where the author, chief NRA lobbyist Chris W. Cox, criticized newly introduced bipartisan universal background-check legislation. But in the eyes of others, the headline and accompanying photo of Pelosi and Giffords, who was shot in the head in Tucson in 2011, said more than the article did.

Some claimed the headline was an intentional attempt to incite violence against the politicians.

View the complete February 25 article by Meagan Flynn on The Washington Post website here.

House Democrats to challenge Trump’s emergency declaration; Republicans divided on action

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Feb. 14 that Democrats will be ready to respond if President Trump declares a national emergency at the border. (Reuters)

House Democrats are gearing up to pass a joint resolution disapproving of President Trump’s emergency declaration to build his U.S.-Mexico border wall, a move that will force Senate Republicans to vote on a contentious issue that divides their party.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Thursday evening in an interview with The Washington Post that the House would take up the resolution in the coming days or weeks. The measure is expected to easily clear the Democratic-led House, and because it would be privileged, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) would be forced to put the resolution to a vote that he could lose.

“This is a gross abuse of presidential power,” Nadler said of the news that Trump would declare a national emergency to try to move money around to fulfill one of his central campaign promises. “This is an attempt to overturn the basic constitutional doctrine of separation of powers. Congress has the power of the purse. It cannot be tolerated.”

View the complete February 14 article by Rachael Bade, Seung Min Kim, Mike DeBonis and Paul Kane on The Washington Post website here.

‘Have I not been clear about the wall?’ Pelosi signals Trump still won’t get what he wants

Credit: Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call

Three weeks of negotiations not likely to result in a Trump-friendly agreement on border wall funding

ANALYSIS — It took 35 days, but President Donald Trump ultimately caved to Democratic demands that he reopen the government before they’d entertain negotiations on border security. And in 21 more, Trump will have to decide whether to give in again, because he’s not likely to get what he wants.

Trump agreed Friday to back a three-week continuing resolution that will reopen the government through Feb. 15. But he is not giving up on his quest to secure funding for wall along the southern border.

“We really have no choice but to build a powerful wall or steel barrier,” Trump said as he concluded remarks from the Rose Garden announcing the deal to temporarily reopen government. “If we don’t get a fair deal from Congress, the government will either shut down on Feb. 15 again or I will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the Constitution of the United States to address this emergency.”

View the complete January 25 article by Lindsey McPherson on The Roll Call website here.

This is why Republicans were so desperate to keep Nancy Pelosi from becoming speaker again

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Credit: Win McNamee, Getty Images

Trump caves.

Nancy Pelosi has been speaker of the House for just 22 days, and she just humiliated the president of the United States.

Ever since President Donald Trump shut down much of the government last month, Pelosi has delivered a consistent message to Trump — “my offer to you is this: nothing.” On Friday, Trump took that offer, announcing his support for a short-term funding bill that will reopen the government for three weeks without any additional funding for a border wall.

Trump’s cave on Friday is absolute. He will reopen the government and he will not get his wall. Pelosi wins. Trump loses.

View the complete January 25 article by Ian Millhiser on the ThinkProgress website here.

Trump to delay State of the Union until after shutdown

President Trump said late Wednesday that he would deliver his State of the Union address after the ongoing partial government shutdown is over.

“As the Shutdown was going on, [Speaker] Nancy Pelosi asked me to give the State of the Union Address,” Trump wrote in a tweet. “I agreed. She then changed her mind because of the Shutdown, suggesting a later date. This is her prerogative — I will do the Address when the Shutdown is over.”

Trump, in a subsequent tweet, expanded on earlier statements suggesting he may do an “alternative” State of the Union, writing that he was not seeking another venue because “there is no venue that can compete with the history, tradition and importance of the House Chamber.”

View the complete January 23 article by Mary Tyler March on The Hill website here.

Pelosi tells Trump no State of the Union on Tuesday

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday she will block President Trump from delivering the State of the Union address in the House chamber until the government reopens, rejecting the president’s demand to deliver the speech on Jan. 29.

In a letter to Trump, Pelosi said she would not move forward with the legislative steps needed for the address to take place.

“The House of Representatives will not consider a concurrent resolution authorizing the president’s State of the Union address in the House chamber until government has opened,” she wrote.

View the complete January 23 article by Jordan Fabian on The Hill website here.

Pelosi spokesman says White House leaked commercial travel plans to Afghanistan

A bus is seen of the East Front of the Capitol after members of the House disembarked, after an overseas CODEL was postponed by President Trump on Thursday, January 17, 2019. Credit: Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call

Alternate plan was canceled after State Department warned against it

The shutdown feud between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump escalated Friday after the California Democrat’s office revealed it had made commercial travel arrangements to continue an Afghanistan trip the president tried to cancel — but the administration leaked their plans.

There was already a security risk with the speaker and her congressional delegation continuing the overseas troop visit after Trump announced Thursday where they’d be going. But the heightened threat from Trump leaking the commercial travel plans led the delegation to call off the trip for now, a Pelosi spokesman said.

“After President Trump revoked the use of military aircraft to travel to Afghanistan, the delegation was prepared to fly commercially to proceed with this vital trip to meet with our commanders and troops on the front lines,” Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said in a statement.

View the complete January 18 article by Lindsey McPherson on The Roll Call website here.