From a new interview with the NY Times, Pelosi addresses the progressive opposition to the Border funding bill:
And commenting on why impeachment isn't an option:
I don't know why she loves to fight one of the most popular Dems in congress right now more than Trump, but I'm sure there's some carefully concocted reason for it.
Some House liberals have been furious with the speaker since she capitulated to Republicans and Democratic moderates and agreed to pass a bill to send more funding to the border, giving up demands for stronger protections for the migrant children ensnared in the nightmare of shelters there.
I asked Pelosi whether, after being the subject of so many you-go-girl memes for literally clapping back at Trump, it was jarring to get a bad headline like the one in HuffPost that day — "What The Hell Is Nancy Pelosi Doing?" The article described the outrage of the Squad, as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts are known.
Pelosi feels that the four made themselves irrelevant to the process by voting against "our bill," as she put it, which she felt was the strongest one she could get. "All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world," she said. "But they didn't have any following. They're four people and that's how many votes they got."
And commenting on why impeachment isn't an option:
"Oh, he'd rather not be impeached,'' she said. "But he sees a silver lining. And he wants to then say, 'The Democrats impeached me but the Senate' — he won't say Republicans — 'exonerated me.' The thing is that, he every day practically self-impeaches by obstructing justice and ignoring the subpoenas."
I don't know why she loves to fight one of the most popular Dems in congress right now more than Trump, but I'm sure there's some carefully concocted reason for it.