Speaker Pelosi’s landmark trade deal with President Trump gives vulnerable House Democrats a crucial legislative victory amid GOP accusations that they’re obsessed with impeachment
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s landmark trade deal with President Donald Trump gives vulnerable House Democrats a crucial legislative victory amid GOP accusations that they’re obsessed with impeachment.
Pelosi swatted away questions about whether she gave away too much to Trump, defending the deal on its merits. Vulnerable Sen. Joni Ernst , whose own reelection campaign received a massive boost from the deal, responded to the Democratic hand-wringing with glee: “Too damn bad.” “I have always resisted the notion that politics should play into whether we’re going to get things done,” said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand , who ran for president earlier this year. “I made my 9/11 health bill permanent and I didn’t even get to go to the signing. So I did a good thing President Trump took credit for. But that’s my job.”
Pelosi may feel better about keeping her majority, but so too does Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Senate Republicans’ last big legislative achievement was arguably the tax cuts bill of 2017. Senate Democrats regularly accuse them of presiding over a “legislative graveyard.” Those members got more vocal as the calendar ticked toward December. In a private meeting in mid-November, they warned their colleagues that failing to reach a deal would cost them the majority next year.
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