In a closed-door meeting between Democratic leaders and other lawmakers, Nancy Pelosi, who is believed to be the next Speaker of the House of…
In a closed-door meeting between Democratic leaders and other lawmakers, Nancy Pelosi, who is believed to be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, told members of her party that President Donald Trump reiterated claims that Mexico would pay for his proposed wall at the southern U. S. border.
Pelosi told her colleagues that Trump made the comments during a meeting at the White House on Tuesday, per reporting from CNN .
According to an aide who was in the meeting with Democrats, Pelosi said that Trump told her money to build the wall would come in a roundabout way, as part of the United States, Mexico, and Canada Agreement (USMCA) that the three nations recently signed.
“‘They’re paying for the wall with the money we’re gonna make over the newly revised USMCA,’” Pelosi recounted Trump saying, according to the aide.
The aide added that Pelosi tried to explain that any money made by the USMCA that went to the expense of building a border wall would be made at the expense of the American workforce.
