Schumer and Pelosi are NOT in lockstep on ending the shutdown claims Trump’s new chief of staff saying that Senate Republican leader wants to deal – but House’s top Dem doesn’t
He said instincts told him Sen. Charles Schumer was interested in compromise
Claimed Pelosi was holding back due to her own upcoming Speaker election
Also said Democrats rejected a move to compromise on $5 billion wall demand
He spoke to Fox News from outside the White house
Pelosi appears to have locked down the votes to get elected speaker by the House
Repeatedly stressed that President Trump was in Washington working rather than golfing at Mar-a-Lago
Said Trump was ‘heavily engaged’ on a ‘minute-by-minute basis’
Pelosi’s office countered that they haven’t heard from the White House since Dec. 11th
By GEOFF EARLE
DAILYMAIL.COM
28 December 2018
Incoming White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney claimed there was a split among congressional leaders that is preventing a resolution to the partial government shutdown on its seventh day.
Mulvaney, who Trump named his ‘acting’ chief of staff with the immediate departure of chief of staff John Kelly, claimed Friday that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was holding back on a potential deal because of her upcoming election to become speaker – although all signs in recent weeks are that she has locked down the post.
In what looked like an attempted divide-and-conquer via TV interview strategy, Mulvaney floated the theory of a split between the two leaders, who together clashed with Trump in a caustic televised Oval Office meeting days before the shutdown began.
He said of Senate minority leader Charles Schumer: ‘My gut was that he was really interested in doing a deal and coming to some sort of compromise, but the more we’re hearing this week is that it’s nancy Pelosi that is preventing that from happening,’ Mulvaney told Fox News in an interview from outside the White House Friday.
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