Dems refusing to compromise on border security deal to end government shutdown
President Trump wasn’t thrilled with Democrats’ decision to reject his ‘reasonable’ offer to secure the $5.7 billion in border wall funding in exchange for a three-year extension of protections for the so-called “Dreamers”. And he’s making his displeasure with Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, with whom has been feuding almost non-stop since the shutdown began, known in a Sunday morning twitter rant the likes of which we haven’t seen in some time.
First, Trump accused Pelosi of turning down his offer before he even had the chance to speak, accusing her of attaching more importance to political considerations than “crime & drugs.”
He then accused her of behaving “so irrationally & [going] so far left that she has now officially become a “Radical Democrat” – language Trump has used to describe newly inaugurated members of the House of Representatives, including Bronx Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a self-professed “Democratic Socialist.
