Emergency powers, activate!
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 9:40 pm
Trump calls meeting with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi a 'total waste of time' after he storms out
- President Donald Trump storms out of a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over an ongoing partial government shutdown, calling it "a total waste of time."
- "I said bye-bye, nothing else works!" Trump says in a tweet after the walkout.
- The breakdown in negotiations over border wall funding appeared to heighten the possibility that Trump might declare a national emergency.