Pelosi mocks GOP 'meltdown' over wall funding
by Susan Ferrechio
| December 20, 2018 11:57 AM
House Republican plans to quickly pass a short-term spending bill stalled on Thursday after President Trump and conservative GOP lawmakers balked at the lack of funding for a border wall.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called it a "sort of meltdown on the part of the Republicans" and said she wasn't sure how the rest of the day would unfold.
Republicans canceled their weekly press conference after a contentious closed-door meeting with GOP lawmakers Thursday morning.
Lawmakers had hoped to clear the short-term measure for Trump’s signature this afternoon and then leave town for the holiday break. They face a deadline of Friday at midnight to pass the spending measure and prevent a partial government closure of nine agencies.
But Trump’s tweets complaining about the lack of wall funding and his last-minute call Thursday morning with Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., have left the plans in doubt.
It then turned into an impromptu White House meeting that had some worried Trump was prepared to veto the spending bill unless it included funding for the border wall. Ryan, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Reps. Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows were set to attend the noon meeting.
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