Schumer and Pelosi bail on White House meeting after Trump attacks them on Twitter

Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
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After President Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that he didn't "see a deal" with congressional Democrats to avoid a government shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) pulled out of a planned meeting at the White House. The Democratic leaders said in a statement that "we believe the best path forward is to continue negotiating with our Republican counterparts in Congress instead." In his Tuesday morning tweet, the president had attacked "Chuck and Nancy," who he said were in favor of "illegal immigrants flooding into our country" and wanted to "substantially RAISE taxes."

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Kelly O'Meara Morales

Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.