Trump in public Oval Office shouting match with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer as he threatens to shut down the government to get his wall built – and they call him a ‘Pinocchio’ and tell him: ‘Elections have consequences’
Congress and the president must agree on a federal funding proposal by Dec. 21
Trump wants $5 billion to fund his border wall and had Washington worried he would engineer a partial shut down of the government if he doesn’t get it
Democrats are offering him $1.6 billion that can be used on fencing not concrete
He indicated Tuesday that he had a new strategy: have the military build the wall
Democratic senators warned just yesterday that the military does not have the authority to use defense funds to build border barriers on a bombing range in AZ
Trump fired off tweets that cast immigrants as disease-carrying lawbreakers hours before Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer were due at the White House
Democratic leaders will meet Trump at 11:30 am to hash out a spending deal
By FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
DAILYMAIL.COM
11 December 2018
Donald Trump’s negotiating session with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer spiraled wildly out of control on Tuesday, with the politicians viciously tearing into the president in plain view of reporters.
Pelosi informed him that his border wall wouldn’t pass in the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold a majority of seats, if it came for a vote.
‘The fact is you do not have the votes in the House,’ she told him pointedly.
Trump angrily told the expected speaker of the House that funding for his wall would pass in ‘two seconds’ in the lower chamber, only it doesn’t matter because it won’t reach the 60-vote threshold in the Senate without Democratic support.
Schumer brought up his ‘Pinocchio’ score in the Washington Post.
‘Elections have consequences,’ Schumer hollered at Trump as the wild fight played out on camera.
Trump had earlier portrayed illegal immigrants as disease-carrying lawbreakers who must be blocked from entering the country by his proposed border wall on Tuesday morning.
Heading into a meeting today with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, Trump turned up the heat on Democrats, saying he would have the military build his border wall if Democrats refuse to appropriate the funding as part of a must-pass spending bill.
‘People do not yet realize how much of the Wall, including really effective renovation, has already been built. If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall. They know how important it is!’ Trump tweeted.
Trump claimed that Democrats are withholding the money ‘strictly political reasons’ and that they want to open America’s borders to Mexican and Central American migrants.
‘This brings large scale crime and disease,’ the Republican president claimed.
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