Schumer and Pelosi CANCEL White House meeting with Trump

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[h=1]Schumer and Pelosi CANCEL White House meeting with Trump after he tweets that he doesn't 'see a deal' with them on spending that could avoid a government shutdown[/h]

• President Donald Trump joins Senate Republicans at their weekly lunch Tuesday
• He also planned to meet with congressional leaders at the White House
• But Democratic leaders Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi abruptly canceled
• The move effectively cuts the temper-prone Trump out of the budget talks
• Government funding runs out December 8
• Some Democrats are demanding a solution for immigration status of DREAMers
• Trump called Democrats weak' on crime and said they want to raise taxes
• Republican leaders want to vote on a tax cut plan this week; Trump wants one by Christmas

 

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The two top Democrats in Congress abruptly canceled a planned White House meeting with Donald Trump on Tuesday in response to the president's angry tweet expressing pessimism about their willingness to cut a deal that would keep the government running.
Trump threw shade at Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi hours earlier, calling them tax-hikers who are 'weak' on crime and favor the 'unchecked' admission of illegal immigrants into the United States.
And he wrote that he doesn't 'see a deal' in the making.
Pelosi and Schumer effectively cut the president out of the conversation late on Tuesday morning, saying in a joint statement that '[g]iven that the President doesn’t see a deal between Democrats and the White House, we believe the best path forward is to continue negotiating with our Republican counterparts in Congress instead.'

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'I don’t see a deal!' with Democrats to keep the government running, President Donald Trump tweeted

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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi abruptly canceled a budget- and tax-related meeting with Donald Trump on Tuesday, saying she won't go to the White House after the president tweeted that he was pessimistic about cutting a deal across the aisle

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Chuck Schumer (center), the Senate's leading Democrat, is also boycotting Trump, essentially cutting the president out of buget negotiations

'Rather than going to the White House for a show meeting that won’t result in an agreement, we’ve asked Leader McConnell and Speaker Ryan to meet this afternoon. We don’t have any time to waste in addressing the issues that confront us, so we’re going to continue to negotiate with Republican leaders who may be interested in reaching a bipartisan agreement.'
The White House told reporters late on Monday that Trump would meet with congressional leadership at 3:00 p.m. The administration wouldn't immediately say whether Republicans will still attend.
Trump is also scheduled to speak with the Republican Senate Caucus at lunchtime.
Republicans have unified control of government, but leaders may need to rely on some Democratic votes to get a funding resolution passed.
Some Democrats are demanding a fix to help DREAMers who came to the U.S. illegally as immigrant children. The president rescinded their status but set a six-month deadline that ends in March to find a solution.
'Meeting with "Chuck and Nancy" today about keeping government open and working,' Trump tweeted. 'Problem is they want illegal immigrants flooding into our Country unchecked, are weak on Crime and want to substantially RAISE Taxes. I don’t see a deal!'

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President Trump tweeted about an upcoming meeting with Sen. Charles Schumer and House minority leader Nancy Pelosi

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NO THANKS: Pelosi tweeted that she and Schumer plan to 'continue negotiating with our Republican counterparts in Congress'

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Pelosi wrote that she and Schumer will negotiate 'in good faith'

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Trump may need help from 'Chuck and Nancy,' as he calls them, to bring a spending bill across the finish line and avoid a government shutdown for which Republicans would likely catch most of the blame

 

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Trump used a similar attack on Doug Jones, the Alabama Senate candidate who is a former prosecutor and who helped put away two Ku Klux Klansmen who were charged with blowing up a Birmingham Baptist church in 1963.
'The last thing we need in Alabama and the U.S. Senate is a Schumer/Pelosi puppet who is WEAK on Crime, WEAK on the Border, Bad for our Military and our great Vets, Bad for our 2nd Amendment, AND WANTS TO RAISES TAXES TO THE SKY. Jones would be a disaster!” Trump tweeted this past weekend.
Typically in recent years, even as government funding deadlines approach, presidents reassure financial markets and investors that the U.S. government will ultimately remain open and running.
The president may be trying to use the threat of a shutdown to try to gain negotiating leverage, although usually it is a minority party seeking concessions from the White House who is able to threaten to hold up government funding, rather than the head of the government.
Neither Pelosi nor Schumer are calling for tax hikes, though Democrats are resisting the $1.4 trillion tax cut that Trump called 'tremendous' on Monday.
Republican leaders trying to reach majority support for their tax cut must contend with another conservative who is raising objections, after Montana Sen. Steve Daines raised concerns about how it would affect 'Main Street.'
With just a 52 seat majority, they can only afford three defections from their ranks.
Trump heads to the Capitol Tuesday afternoon to meet with the Republican conference about the tax cut, which could come to the floor for a vote as soon as Thursday.
One Republican senator, Ron Johnson of Ohio, has already said he is a 'no' on the bill because of the way it advantages corporations over so-called 'pass-throughs,' business who file as individuals and miss off on some of the savings in the bill.

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Not happening again: Pelosi sat in the Oval Office in September as the White House negotiated hurricane relief funds and a hike in the nation's borrowing limit

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Trump has promised to 'give the American people a huge tax cut for Christmas' but the politics are getting tough on Capitol Hill as Republicans defect

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NOT THERE YET: Conservative Sen. Steve Daines has voiced concerns about the bill

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Senate Finance Committee chairman Orrin Hatch (center-right) told reporters that he 'hopes' to have a tax relief plan on Trump's desk by Christmas, and that he's confident the GOP can find 50 votes to pass it

 

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'Sen. Daines has concerns with how the tax bill looks at main street versus large corporations,' an aide to the senator said, The Hill reported. 'The Senator wants changes to the tax cut bill that ensure main street businesses are not put at a competitive disadvantage against large corporations.'
Daines, a Budget Committee member, linked his support to the issue. 'Before I can support this bill, this improvement needs to be made.'
A new Congressional Budget Office score estimates that "(t)he number of people with health insurance would decrease by 4 million in 2019 and 13 million in 2027' under the bill due to its removal of an Obamacare individual mandate.
That provision has drawn criticism from Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, although it could get removed if needed to lock down enough votes.
Trump hailed the bill as 'a tremendous tax cut' and 'the biggest tax reduction in the history of our country' on Monday.
'I think we're going to have great receptivity. We've had great spirit,' the president said.
'And I can tell you, the Republican senators who are up, if we win we are going to get some Democratic senators who are joining us. If we don't win they wont be joining us,' he predicted.

 

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Democrats would rather obstruct and have president Trump fail than have the country succeed.

 

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Nailed it

 

[rolltide]

all 3 are little children. you don't fucking tweet about not getting a busy deal done before the negotiations have taken place and you don't just cancel the meeting and run home with your ball because donnie is a manchild.

bunch of retards we've elected

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Does it really matter if Trump meets with Chuck and Nancy? They will instruct
their members to vote no on any bill that has Trumps appoval so what's the point.

If I were Trump I would ignore them to the point of not even acknowledging there
existence. Treat them like the useless beings that they are or maybe bitch slap them every
once in a while just for the fun of it.

To quote Neil Cavuto, “You’re the president . . . why don’t you act like it?”

 

[SheriffJoe]

 

[Willie99]

who cares, they'd only lie about the meeting anyway, so they can just sell whatever false narrative they want, who gives a fuck?

"ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES", a famous quote by some fucking idiot that lacked common sense and fore-site. You would think he should have been smart enough to know he'd have to eat those words someday, but he's just not very bright

 

[Willie99]

all 3 are little children. you don't fucking tweet about not getting a busy deal done before the negotiations have taken place and you don't just cancel the meeting and run home with your ball because donnie is a manchild.

bunch of retards we've elected

I'm OK with a preemptive FUCK YOU, I actually like it. Nothing is going to change in DC until the fucking idiots are beaten to a pulp in the political arena

No more same old same old, no more fake decorum, changing how business is done

 

[SheriffJoe]

@)

 

[rolltide]

I'm OK with a preemptive FUCK YOU, I actually like it. Nothing is going to change in DC until the fucking idiots are beaten to a pulp in the political arena

No more same old same old, no more fake decorum, changing how business is done

then be a fucking adult and call them to tell them the meeting is canceled and they can fuck themselves. do't go onto twitter like a teen girl to let the boy from her middle school class know that she's not interested in going to the prom with him

tweeting about people doesn't change a damn thing

 

[Willie99]

it doesn't have the same appeal