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Pelosi, Schumer urge Trump to butt out of budget negotiations
Yahoo News ^ | April 24, 2017 | Liz Goodwin

Posted on 04/25/2017 11:12:48 AM PDT by Zakeet

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., delivered a message to President Trump on Monday morning about Congress' sensitive negotiations over a spending bill that must pass by Friday.

That message: Butt out.

"It's my view that if the president stepped out of it, we could get a budget done by Friday," Schumer said on a conference call with reporters.

"Totally agree," Pelosi said. "We were on the path to get it done until he did intervene."

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Schumer called the wall a "monkey wrench" the president threw into the process, bungling an agreement between the parties.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: budget; pelosi; schumer; spending
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To: okie 54

What makes you think that these voters aren’t seeking out lunatics for which to vote?


41 posted on 04/26/2017 3:14:31 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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