Love her or hate her ... Pelosi has decided to face this head on as trump TWEETS another morning dig at her and the house ...
Pelosi ignores Trump taunts as she steers through another crisis ...
The speaker has taken charge of the economic rescue plan as the coronavirus spreads.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was preparing to hop in a caravan of SUVs to depart the Capitol Tuesday afternoon
when he called Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Mnuchin had just spent an hour huddling with Senate Republicans as President Donald Trump tried to sell wary GOP lawmakers on his plan to prevent an economic collapse from the coronavirus pandemic.
Just hours before, Trump had taken his latest shot at Pelosi in
a morning tweet. But that didn’t deter the speaker, who huddled with Mnuchin for a 30-minute meeting in her office. The two also chatted on the phone twice on Wednesday, and Pelosi is now on the verge of pushing through a massive stimulus bill that could earn GOP support, as well as Trump’s signature.
For any other leader, the rapid turnaround on the recovery plan would be a herculean feat at best. But for Pelosi, successfully negotiating a multi-billion-dollar economic package with a hostile and often antagonistic Trump administration was just another day in the speaker’s suite.
It’s also a reminder that for all Trump’s omnipresence on Twitter and cable TV, Pelosi remains the dominant figure on Capitol Hill when it comes time to actually getting something accomplished.
“She understands what has to be done, and will do so in a very limited time frame and scope while trying to be inclusive with a very diverse caucus that also has a lot of their own ideas on how to solve the problem,” said Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.).
“While there can be some consternation going forward, at the end of the day, she has the trust of the caucus.”
“It feels like we have someone who is competent, who is gathering folks around to come up with clear thoughts on how to move forward in a time of crisis,” added Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.).
Yet the coronavirus crisis is unlike anything Washington has faced in a century —
a pandemic with no cure that has sent financial markets into a tailspin and is rapidly spreading throughout the country, sickening more than 1,000 Americans and killing 32 in the U.S. so far.
The face of the U.S. response — of course — is Trump..... But he’s also taken a sometimes-erratic approach to the outbreak, often undermining his own administration’s recommendations and repeating falsehoods about the coronavirus being
“very much under control” in the country. Which is obviously a lie. Experts have recently expressed that it will only get worse due to lack of adequate testing and supplies for testing ( equipment/ reagents ) ..... She has told members of staff and house “ We are Captains of our ships .... We are the last to leave “ ...