‘She wields the knife’: Pelosi strikes to belittle and undercut Trump in shutdown struggle

Home Democrats on Wednesday have been planning to undermine President Trump at his Jan. 29 State of the Union deal with. Simply previous eight:30 a.m., the management’s communications arm despatched an e mail to lawmakers urging them to convey furloughed federal employees or different “message-related” friends to the nationally televised occasion. Unknown to most of her caucus, nevertheless, Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had selected a extra confrontational method. Addressing a closed-door assembly of Home Democrats, the speaker learn a letter she had simply despatched to Trump asking him to both postpone the speech till the federal authorities reopens or ship…