Pelosi Calls Trump’s Decision To End COVID-19 Relief Negotiations a ‘Terrible Mistake’
As President Donald Trump appears to be backtracking a little bit from his decision to call off negotiations on a new COVID-19 relief bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says he is trying to recover from a…
As President Donald Trump appears to be backtracking a little bit from his decision to call off negotiations on a new COVID-19 relief bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says he is trying to recover from a mistake.
“The fact is, is that he saw the political downside of his statement of walking away from the negotiation,” Pelosi said during an appearance on ABC’s “The View” on Wednesday while discussing the president’s subsequent tweets calling for smaller, separate relief bills.
Pelosi continued to say Trump abandoned a chance to “crush the virus” and reopen schools and businesses in a safe manner. She also noted that Trump tweeted that he would sign a bill to send out another round of $1,200 checks to families separate from a larger bill.
“It’s interesting that he said he’d send out those checks if we just sent him that bill, cause all he’s ever wanted in the negotiation was to send out a check with his name printed on it. Forget about the virus, forget about our heroes, forget about our children, and their need to go to school safely.”
She added, “So he’s just, again, rebounding from a terrible mistake that he made yesterday. And the Republicans in Congress are going down the drain with him on that.”
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Ana Navarro, an anti-Trump Republican who co-hosted on Wednesday, asked Pelosi what she thought was causing the president to exhibit such “erratic behavior.”