Apparently Trump thinks he’s in Mexico City because that’s where he promised the money was coming for his “wall”.
Pelosi to Trump: "The fact is, you do NOT have the votes in the House."
Trump: "Nancy, Nancy, I do."
- “It’s called funding the government, Mr President,” Schumer says tersely to Trump when he talks about funding the wall
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“We should not have a Trump shutdown,” Pelosi says. Trump: “A what?” Pelosi: “A Trump shutdown.”
- Trump getting angry as Pelosi says he doesn't have the votes in the House to fund the wall with GOP votes alone. "Nancy, I do."
- Schumer on wall: "It doesn't solve the problem."
- Trump: "It totally solves the problem."
- "When the president brags that he won in Indiana and North Dakota, he's in real trouble," Schumer says of Trump boasting about keeping the Senate.
- "We did" win North Dakota and Indiana, Trump shoots back.
- Pence, meanwhile, sitting silently
- "Elections have consequences, Mr. President," Schumer said.
- Trump: "And that's why the country is doing so well."
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AND THERE IT IS. Trump: "If we don't get what we want ... I will shut down the government ... I am proud to shutdown the government for border security. ... I will take the mantle ... for shutting down the government."
- Pence, meanwhile, sat silently and didn’t say a word.
Unhingery plays out on live TV because stunt-POTUS* thought he could intimidate Dems with some kayfabe to distract from the felony news of Friday. Perhaps Kushner can pawn his Mexican medal.
weak WH spin:
GOP leaders were left cringing by Trump’s vow to take responsibility for a partial shutdown and his promise not to blame Democrats.
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Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), who urged the president in a private meeting before Thanksgiving not to shut down federal agencies over the border wall, said he would have handled it differently.
“I’ve never said that myself. I’m always trying to work to fund the government,” he said.
Shelby said Trump’s comments heightening the likelihood of a shutdown.
“I think it’s a step in that direction, obviously, at least [with] the rhetoric,” he said.
Sen. Pat Leahy (Vt.), the senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, said he’s never seen a spat play out so publicly at a senior-level White House meeting during all his years in Congress.
“I’ve only been here with eight presidents,” said Leahy, who was elected to the Senate in 1974.
“Somehow he’s made up his mind that it will make him look good to have a Trump shutdown but a Trump shutdown costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, creates havoc and does nothing for border security,” he added.
The lack of a “Plan B” in the wake of Nick Ayers refusal to take the CoS job, still stings, again revealing how Trump cannot think past the assurances given to him by most likely, Jarvanka.
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annieli
Though Trump still does want Mexico to pay for the wall,
During a private portion of his conversation with Pelosi and Schumer, he said that Mexico would be paying for the wall indirectly,
Pelosi told fellow Democrats later in the day, according to CNN's Manu Raju.
"He says, 'Mexico is going to pay for the wall.'
I said, 'They're not paying for the wall.'
He said, 'They're paying for the wall with the money we're gonna make over the newly revised USMCA,'" Pelosi told Democrats, according to an aide in the room.
"I said, 'That isn't the fact. I'm gonna go out and tell people that you think that Mexico is paying for it with money that should be going into our economy.' "