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The quarrel between the White House and the Democrats fester. Donald Trump was to receive opposition leaders to discuss the infrastructure plan they had begun discussing, but the president did not like a comment from Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday morning and finally canceled the meeting. -you.
With our correspondent in Washington, Anne Corpet
" The president is engaged in a concealment operation ," said Nancy Pelosi after a meeting with elected officials of his party. An allusion to the fact that the White House systematically refuses to provide congressional Democrats with the documents they want.
But this little phrase sparked the fury of Donald Trump: " I wanted to advance on infrastructure, but I can not do it in these circumstances, " he said.
The president has sent the Democratic leaders summoned to the White House to discuss a plan for major works of $ 2 trillion.
For Chuck Schumer, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, the explanation is simple:
" He's looking for any excuse. Today, he talks about the investigations we are conducting. Hello ! They were already underway when we met three weeks ago. Now that he is forced to explain how to pay for the plan, he runs away. "
Nancy Pelosi, she pretends not to understand: " Maybe he just lacked confidence. He just dodged and I wonder why. "
The infrastructure file was one of the few on which the White House and the congressional democrats had begun to work together. But the president does not intend to continue to collaborate, until the Congress has ended its investigations .
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