Pelosi rules out money for border wall, Trump says no deal without it
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she will “of course” allow a floor vote on any bipartisan border security proposal crafted by congressional negotiators, but she drew a red line, insisting "there's not going to be any wall money in the legislation."
Pelosi's declaration from Capitol Hill reverberated down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, prompting President Donald Trump to shoot back at Pelosi's insistence that Congress will not fund the border wall.
“If there's no wall, it doesn't work," Trump told reporters at an Oval Office photo-op.
"She's just playing games."
Trump openly contemplated removing the border wall near Tijuana to show Californians like Pelosi how integral a barrier is to controlling the flow of immigrants into the United States.
"If you take down that wall you’ll have so many people coming into our country that Nancy Pelosi will be begging for a wall," Trump predicted.
"She’ll be begging for a wall. She will say 'Please, please, Mr. President, give us a wall.'"
Pelosi said that congressional negotiators should be free to reach a "consensus of their own devices" -- but expressed confidence that Democrats won't allow the talks to produce an agreement that provides any funding to construct physical barriers along the border.
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