On Thursday sworn democrat Nancy Pelosi in as speaker of the house of representatives. She addressed henceforth as ”Madam Speaker”, in the Washington-languages. Pelosi made it immediately clear that the democrats do not intend to abide by the Donald Trumps immigration policy. She used the party’s new majority in congress of one chamber to that immediately vote through two new budget proposal, with a clear majority. The proposals would mean that the federal authorities can open again, after having been closed for two weeks. But the republicans in the senate have already said that they refuse to vote for the same draft budget, since there are no new funds for the boundary wall against Mexico, which Donald Trump requires.
in the senate, dismissed the democratic vote as a “waste of time”. He says that the republicans in the senate will not vote for any proposal that Trump is receiving. It is a clear example of how the republican leadership in Washington has chosen to comply with Trump’s controversial ideas.
Senator Lindsey Graham, who last year was one of Trump’s sharpest critics, said in turn that it is impossible to carry out a compromise with the Democrats in the house of representatives if it does not contain new money for gränsmuren. “It would mean the end for Trump as president”, said Graham.
the opportunity to remind the american people that Trump has already failed with one of its main campaign promises: to get the Mexican government to pay for the much talked about gränsmuren. It is precisely because it now is a crisis in Washington and that is why the federal authorities had to close, which hit the 800,000 government employees.
Trump requires five billion dollars for gränsmuren. Nancy Pelosi said, in a resounding speech in the house of representatives on Thursday, Trump will have to settle for a single dollar.
who had the position as president of the united states history and this will be the second time she has in office, for the period 2007-2011. She seemed to thrive when she returned to the leadership of the house of representatives. In Thursday’s speech in congress, she was playful and relaxed and delivered a series of sarcasms directed against the republicans in congress. Pelosi explained that immigration is a strength for the united states and chose to quote Ronald Reagan, the republican’s most popular president.
” He said that if we ever close the door for new americans and our leadership in the world soon to be lost.
When Pelosi not heard enough applause from half of the room where republican members are sitting, she turned over and said in astonishment:
” What is this, applauding you, not a quote from Reagan?
about how drastically the republicans have moved away from the vision of transparency and the condence that Reagan spread as president, where he among other things conducted a invandringsreform which gave a path to citizenship for three million undocumented migrants in the united states. Pelosi made it clear that she does not intend to adjust its agenda after Trumps restrictive immigration policy.
– Gränsmuren not going to happen, she said.
Pelosi will not be able to get through the many laws and regulations as long as republicans have power over the senate and the White house.
But on Thursday she was once again Washington’s most powerful woman. Already during the first day of the congress, she showed that the democrats stand for a radically different vision for the future of the united states than the one that Trump represents.
the Trump, if the closed state apparatus – ”come and negotiate”
