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Speaker Nancy Pelosi Finally Offers Trump Money For His Border Wall — A Whopping ONE DOLLAR

When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (I love writing that) was asked whether she would agree to fund Donald Trump’s border wall to end the government shutdown, she turned the reporter’s cleverly-worded question against him.

At a press conference Thursday evening, Pelosi and the House Democratic leadership told reporters of their plan to reopen government by passing Republican bills to fund agencies other than Homeland Security, and to put off the DHS negotiation for a month.

But one reporter couldn’t resist taking another shot at negotiating a compromise on Trump’s behalf, and asked Pelosi, “Is there any situation that you would accept even a dollar of wall funding for this president in order to reopen the government?”

“A dollar?” Pelosi asked, to laughter from the reporters. “A dollar? Yeah, one dollar.”

“How high are you willing to go? Are you willing to spend…” the reporter said.

“No, you said a dollar, you said a dollar,” Pelosi interrupted. “That’s not your question, you said a dollar, I’m answering your question.”

She later seemed to rescind even that offer.

“We’re not doing a wall. Does anybody have any doubt about that? We are not doing a wall. So that’s that,” she said.

“It has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with: The wall is an immorality between countries. It’s an old way of thinking [and] it isn’t cost-effective.”

Trump tried to steal the newly-sworn-in Speaker’s thunder with a stunt press conference Thursday afternoon, during which he was openly heckled for refusing to take questions. But Speaker Pelosi appears to have had the last word, and it was, once again, “no” to Trump’s border wall.

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