Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered up a rare criticism of her counterpart in the Senate, saying that Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was wrong to capitulate to Republicans last week and allow the passage of a massive government funding bill that hands President Donald Trump more power to continue his cuts across the federal government. “I myself don’t give away anything for nothing. I think that’s what happened the other day,” Pelosi said during a news conference in San Francisco Tuesday. The event was part of a protest against House Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid. “We could have, in my view, perhaps, gotten them to agree to a third way,” Pelosi added, pointing to a potential short term stopgap measure that would have delayed a government shutdown for several weeks while the two sides continued to negotiate. “They may not have agreed to it, but at least the public would have seen they’re not agreeing to it. Then they would have been shutting government down.”
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