Democrats Try to Shove Trump Aside
Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi want to cut the president out of year-end spending negotiations to avert a government shutdown, refusing to attend a White House meeting on Tuesday.
Democrats have tried defeating Donald Trump. They’ve tried to block him, mock him, and persuade him. They’ve even tried to pull one over on him.
Now, they’re trying to shove him aside.
In a spat that began with—what else?—, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are refusing to attend a meeting with Trump at the White House on Tuesday aimed at averting a government shutdown that could begin in 10 days. Their decision to pull out of the bipartisan summit came a little more than two hours after the
