Or, in this case, tweets
President Donald Trump speaks during a photo opportunity commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, D.C.Though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has come under fire for her reticence to use her party’s control of the House to hold President Trump in check, she’s appears to be playing hardball when it comes to the debt ceiling.
On Friday, she rejected the White House’s latest budget proposal, which called for Democrats to cut $150 billion in spending. Trump is not happy. On Friday afternoon, Trump expressed dismay that Pelosi would dare use the debt ceiling — which the president described as “a sacred element of our country” — to negotiate a better deal for Democrats. “Hopefully we’re in good shape on the debt ceiling,” he Trump said, according to a White House pool report. “I can’t imagine anybody ever even thinking of using the debt ceiling as a negotiating [tool].
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