Incoming White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney claimed there was a split among congressional leaders that is preventing a resolution to the partial government shutdown on its seventh day.
Mulvaney, who Trump named his 'acting' chief of staff with the immediate departure of chief of staff John Kelly, claimed Friday that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was holding back on a potential deal because of her upcoming election to become speaker – although all signs in recent weeks are that she has locked down the post.
In what looked like an attempted divide-and-conquer via TV interview strategy, Mulvaney floated the theory of a split between the two leaders, who together clashed with Trump in a caustic televised Oval Office meeting days before the shutdown began.
He said of Senate minority leader Charles Schumer: 'My gut was that he was really interested in doing a deal and coming to some sort of compromise, but the more we're hearing this week is that it's nancy Pelosi that is preventing that from happening,' Mulvaney told Fox News in an interview from outside the White House Friday.
Incoming White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney claims there is a split between Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi that is preventing a deal to reopen the government
Incoming White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney claimed there was a split between Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi that was preventing a deal to end the government shutdown
He then argued that Pelosi was cornered into her position by her own need to prevail on the House floor Jan. 3 when she must stand for speaker.
'She cannot be seen by her party as being weak on negotiating with Donald Trump," Mulvaney said. 'So we fully expected that until she's elected speaker and has locked that vote up, we don't expect to hear from the Democrats again."
Asked about his claim, Pelosi's office responded that the White House hasn't reached out to Pelosi since Tuesday Dec. 11th, following the tense Oval Office meeting.
'Democrats are united against the President’s immoral, ineffective and expensive wall – the wall that he specifically promised that Mexico would pay for,' said spokesman Drew Hammill.
Mulvaney cast Pelosi as vulnerable because of her need to win election as speaker, although she appears to have locked down support
'Republicans control the House, the Senate and the White House. House Democrats have repeatedly gone to the House floor – including yesterday – to try to force a vote on a clean bill to re-open government,' he continued.
'The last time there has been any outreach to Pelosi directly from the White House was Tuesday, December 11 when President Trump phoned her after the White House meeting that morning.'
Hammill said 'given that the President has changed his position so many times, we would not consider any offers from the White House that the President has not publicly endorsed. While we await the President’s public proposal, Democrats have made it clear that, under a House Democratic Majority, we will vote swiftly to re-open government on Day One.'
Mulvaney stressed that Trump has been working in Washington and missed his planned Christmas and New Year's getaway at Mar-a-Lago. Trump typically spends his New Year's holiday at the lavish estate he owns in Palm Beach
Mulvaney's comments came on a seventh day of a partial government shutdown
Mulvaney brought up that lawmakers have skipped town. On day 6 of the partial government shutdown boxes and furniture wait to be moved from Republican to Democratic offices in the US Capitol building on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on Thursday December 27, 2018
Democrats are considering several options once they take over the House next month: passing a short continuing resolution to fund the rest of the government, a long-term continuing resolution, or funding all of the government at current levels other than the Homeland Security Department, Politico reported earlier this week.
Pelosi mocked Trump's evolving statements on what the wall would look like or be called in an interview this week in USA Today.
'First of all, the fact ... that he says, "We're going to build a wall with cement, and Mexico's going to pay for it," while he's already backed off of the cement – now he's down to, I think, a beaded curtain or something, I'm not sure where he is," Pelosi quipped.
Mulvaney also vouched for President Trump being hard at work, even as Congress essentially skipped town.
'The president's been here by the way all weekend, all Christmas. He's staying in Washington, D.C. over New Years,' Mulvaney said. 'He's cancelled his plans for Christmas, now he cancelled his plans for New Year's.'
Mulvaney said Friday that Trump has been closely following the shutdown as well as the manhunt for an illegal immigrant suspected of killing a cop in California.
'The president is very heavily engaged in this on an almost 'minute-by-minute basis,' Mulvaney said. He said he spoke to the president hourly.
'They told us last night that they are not countering our last offer,' Mulvaney said of congressional Democrats.
Mulvaney also praised 'that steel slat fence that he sent the picture out,' in reference to the border barrier Trump tweeted out with spiky points on top, saying experts consider it the 'ideal border barrier.'
'We are not giving up on that - it's why the government is closed,' Mulvaney said. But he said it 'makes sense' to sit down across the table with another party to negotiate.
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