President Donald Trump absolutely destroyer Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi on live television on Tuesday.
Schumer and Pelosi tried to strongarm the president by telling him that he did not have the votes in the House to get funding for the wall.
But the President shot back that he would shut down the government if he did not get the wall he wanted.
Here is more from The Daily Mail:
‘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.
‘Nancy, I do. We need border security,’ he retorted as the televised meeting devolved into utter chaos.
Schumer brought up Trump’s ‘Pinocchio’ score in the Washington Post, telling Trump that he said at least 20 times that he would use a government shut down as a negotiating tool.
‘We do not want to shut down the government,’ Schumer told him.
The Democratic leader insisted that Trump would be willing to force the lights off ’cause you can’t get your way.’
You just say my way or you shut down the government,’ Schumer exploded.
Schumer invoked former President Barack Obama’s infamous retort, ‘elections have consequences,’ as the yelling match continued.
Obama once used the phrase as a shiv against Republicans during a fiscal package debate shortly after he was inaugurated.
Trump found himself on the other side of the slam on Tuesday as he haggled with Democratic leaders over funding for his border wall.
Trump’s party lost the House of Representatives during the 2018 election. Pelosi is expected to win the gavel in the opening days of the next legislative session.
For twenty minutes, she and Schumer sparred with Trump on camera, emphasizing their long-stated position that he cannot have his border wall funding.
Furious, the president said that he would shut down the government if they don’t give it to him.
‘You want to put that on me I’ll take it,’ he rebutted as Schumer told him that the last government closure was his fault, too.
