Nancy Pelosi Takes Dig at Chuck Schumer: ‘I Myself Don’t Give Away Anything for Nothing’
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) took a dig at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Tuesday after he voted with Republicans to pass a controversial continuing resolution.
“I myself don’t give away anything for nothing,” Pelosi said during a San Francisco press conference. “I think that’s what happened the other day.”
The remark came just days after Schumer received backlash for voting with Republicans to pass the continuing resolution, which other Democrats warned would be “harmful” to the country.
Pelosi had urged Senate Democrats to defy Schumer and vote against the bill last week, claiming they were being sold a “false choice.”
“I salute Leader Hakeem Jeffries for his courageous rejection of this false choice, and I am proud of my colleagues in the House Democratic Caucus for their overwhelming vote against this bill,” she said. “America has experienced a Trump shutdown before – but this damaging legislation only makes matters worse. Democrats must not buy into this false choice. We must fight back for a better way.”
Schumer, meanwhile, argued that while the continuing resolution was a “terrible option,” a government shutdown would be even worse for the Democratic Party.
“The Republican bill is a terrible option,” he said on Thursday. “It is deeply partisan. It doesn’t address far too many of this country’s needs. But I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option.”
Schumer doubled down on those remarks on The View Tuesday, saying, “There are many fewer cuts in their bill than there would be in a shutdown. It was a bad choice. We have two choices: one bad, the other devastating — one chops off one of your fingers, the other chops off your arm.”
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart tore into Schumer on Monday for voting in favor of the bill without even negotiating any concessions.
“What the fuck happened?” protested Stewart. “Senator Schumer, uh, no disrespect but you are a disgrace to Jewish stereotypes about financial negotiations.”
