One day last week, amid spiraling fallout over Mueller's Russia probe, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dialed up the president and requested a meeting. She talked to President Trump about working together on an infrastructure package
It was the first phone call between the two since the testy days of the government shutdown earlier this year, and it seemed productive. They are planning to meet, she told The Associated Press in a Wednesday interview.
Even as Trump derides Democrats as"unhinged" and claims they are a party taken over by"socialists," he pulls his punches with Pelosi. And while Pelosi criticizes Trump as"unfit" for office — and hasn't fully closed the door on impeachment — she wants to work with him on shared priorities. The Trump administration's"infrastructure week" became a punchline around Washington when it fizzled amid the White House's often shifting priorities. Trump promised on election night a $1 trillion investment in new roads and other projects but has never come close to achieving it. Democrats scoff at the $200 billion requests he's made in his budget proposals as meager. Pelosi called it a"nonstarter.
"We've all been talking about infrastructure, including the president, for a couple of years now," McConnell told Fox News on Wednesday."We need some straight talk from both sides on how we're going to pay for it."
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