« Wow. Too busy with ‘Fox & Friends?' » Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse quipped while referencing a report that Trump has not contacted Nancy Pelosi since the shutdown began.
President Donald Trump may have been too busy watching Fox News to contact Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in order to try to end a government shutdown, one Democratic senator quipped Saturday. The shutdown has now entered its second week as Trump continues to hold out for billions of dollars of funding for his border wall, something which Democrats have insisted they will not provide.
Trump has continued to make a big play on Twitter of the fact that he has remained in Washington, rather than vacationing in Florida, since the shutdown began on December 21. Yet Trump, nor Vice President Mike Pence or acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, has not reached out to Pelosi since December 11, according to Politico on Saturday.
Responding to that report, Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, of Rhode Island, suggested that Trump may have been otherwise occupied watching his favorite cable news morning show.
« Wow. Too busy with @foxandfriends?” Whitehouse pondered.
Trump has frequently called into the daily Fox News show and regularly tweets reactions to segments and interviews that appear on the program.
