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Trump Storms Out of Talks With Democrats on Border Wall

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Andrew Harnik/AP/REX/Shutterstock (9447254j) President Donald Trump arrives at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla Trump, West Palm Beach, USA - 02 Mar 2018

President Donald Trump stormed out of negotiations Wednesday on funding a US-Mexico border wall when Democratic opponents said they would not agree to the project.

“A total waste of time,” Trump tweeted about his White House meeting with top Democratic congressional leaders. “I said bye-bye, nothing else works!”

Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, told journalists: “The president just got up and walked out.”

The two sides agreed that the meeting ended abruptly soon after starting, but not on who was to blame.

According to supporters of Trump at the meeting, the president began by asking Democratic leaders whether they would agree to fund his wall project in exchange for him ending a painful shutdown of swaths of government, which he has instigated in retaliation for the standoff.

The Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, “raised her hand and said no, not at all,” said Kevin McCarthy, the senior Republican in the House.

“We heard once again that Democratic leaders are unwilling to even negotiate,” Vice President Mike Pence said.

But Schumer said Trump was the one who was intransigent.

The president “sort of slammed the table” and left, Schumer said. “Again, we saw a temper tantrum because he couldn’t get his way.”

 

 

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