NOTE: Anyone besides us wonder how a spontaneous press conference can come with signage and handouts? That leads us to doubt the issues was Speaker Pelosi’s comment and more about not being able to pull an infrastructure plan together that would he’d be able to get through Congress.
President Trump on Wednesday cut off infrastructure talks with congressional Democratic leaders after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said he was engaged in a “cover up,” then lit into Democrats and declared he would not work with them until their investigations are over.
After their meeting abruptly ended, Trump appeared in the White House Rose Garden and demanded that Democrats “get these phony investigations over with” before talks resume.
“I’ve said from the beginning that you probably can’t go down two tracks,” Trump said. “You can go down the investigation track or you can go down the investment track … We’re going to go down one track at a time.”
View the complete May 22 article by Jordan Fabian on The Hill website here.