Tag: Speaker Pelosi

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.

Trump’s petty response to Pelosi is why this shutdown may never end

Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi
Credit: Reuters; Getty Images

The state of government shutdown negotiations is now just two adults treating each other like children. What shiny toy can they take away next as punishment?

A day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that President Trump delay delivering the State of the Union address in front of Congress due to security concerns while the government is shut down, he seemed to retaliate.

Just hours before Pelosi and other members of Congress were to board a military jet to visit troops in Afghanistan, Trump told her she couldn’t go.

View the complete January 17 article by Colby Itkowitz on The Washington Post website here.

Pelosi cranks up shutdown pressure on Trump, GOP

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Democrats are ramping up pressure on President Trump and Republicans to open the government amid a prolonged impasse over border wall funding that shows no signs of abating.

Sensing a winning hand, Democrats this week will repackage a handful of uncontroversial bills funding a number of shuttered agencies — excluding Homeland Security, which covers the proposed wall — and send them off to the Senate one by one, forcing GOP leaders to explain their promised inaction on measures they supported just weeks ago.

“I have said over and over again, we need to reopen the government and then have a serious discussion about border security,” Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, said Monday in an interview with New York Public Radio.

View the complete January 8 article by Mike Lillis and Scott Wong on The Hill website here.

House Democrats pass government funding bills, Pelosi jokes she’d give Trump $1 for a wall

Speaker Pelosi, D-CA., pictured greeting Senate Minority Leader Schumer, D-NY, during opening day proceedings of the 116th Congress Jan. 3, said Democrats will not agree to a border wall but joked she’d give President Donald Trump $1 for it. Credit: Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call

More seriously, Pelosi reiterates Democrats will not agree to wall as Republicans predict long shutdown

The new House Democratic majority passed two government funding bills Thursday to open shuttered federal agencies that President Donald Trump has said he will not sign, as Republicans predicted the partial government shutdown will be a long one.

Before the votes Speaker Nancy Pelosi reiterated that Democrats will not agree to a border wall but joked that she’d give Trump $1 for it.

“A dollar?” the California Democrat said when asked if there was any situation in which she’d even accept $1 for the wall. “A dollar. One dollar, yeah, one dollar.”

View the complete January 3 article by Lindsey McPherson on The Roll Call website here.

Nancy Pelosi says Trump is not immune from indictment. Some legal experts agree.

Now that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is leading the House for her third term, she faces a tricky political landscape and a big agenda. (Video: Jenny Starrs /Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

Hours before the 116th Congress began, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made clear she’s prepared to respect, even defend, the rule of law.

In an interview broadcast Thursday morning on the “Today” show, Pelosi was asked whether she believed special counsel Robert S. Mueller III should honor decades-old Justice Department guidance, which suggests a president should not be indicted while in office.

“I think that that is an open discussion in terms of the law,” said Pelosi, who became House speaker later in the day. She is now the highest-ranking government official to openly state what many experts have discussed for months.

View the complete January 3 article by Deanna Paul on The Washington Post website here.

DNC on Nancy Pelosi’s Election as Speaker of the House

DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement:

“The speaker’s gavel is finally back where it belongs. Nancy Pelosi doesn’t just hold the title of first female Speaker of the House, she’s also one of the most effective legislators and leaders in our nation’s history. In the depths of the Great Recession, her leadership helped steer our nation back to economic prosperity. And because of her tenacity, millions of Americans have benefited from the Affordable Care Act and its protections for those with pre-existing conditions.

“Under Speaker Ryan, Republicans tried to take affordable health care away from the American people. They handed out massive tax breaks for their wealthy friends while leaving working families behind. And they marched in lockstep with Donald Trump’s regressive agenda that has now resulted in a disastrous government shutdown. In November, voters spoke loud and clear: enough is enough. It’s time to hold this administration accountable for its attacks on working families, civil rights, human rights, and the rule of law. The Democratic Party is back and we’re fighting for the brighter future every American deserves – from affordable health care to an economy that works for all. Under Speaker Pelosi and Democratic leadership in the House, we will restore the guardrails of our democracy and get our country back on track.”