{"id":7466,"date":"2025-03-18T23:47:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T23:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pelosi-shivs-schumer-dont-give-away-anything-for-nothing\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T23:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T23:47:46","slug":"pelosi-shivs-schumer-dont-give-away-anything-for-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pelosi-shivs-schumer-dont-give-away-anything-for-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi shivs Schumer: \u2018Don’t give away anything for nothing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered a sharp critique of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer<\/a> on Tuesday, suggesting he had forfeited a crucial bargaining chip by allowing a vote on Republicans\u2019 government funding bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cI myself don’t give away anything for nothing,\u201d Pelosi told reporters during a news conference at a children\u2019s hospital in San Francisco. \u201cI think that’s what happened the other day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pelosi \u2014 who spoke during an event to oppose House Republicans\u2019 proposed cuts to Medicaid \u2014 said she still supports Schumer, her longtime ally who\u2019s come under fire from within his own party<\/a> in recent days over his decision to allow the GOP\u2019s bill to avert a government shutdown through last Friday.<\/p>\n

But Pelosi, in response to a question, suggested that if Schumer hadn\u2019t cleared the way, it would have given Democrats more leverage to fight proposed cuts to Medicaid and other social safety-net programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could have, in my view, perhaps, gotten them to agree to a third way,\u201d Pelosi said. She said a potential outcome could have been a bipartisan continuing resolution to delay a shutdown for up to four weeks while negotiations continued.<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cThey may not have agreed to it, but at least the public would have seen they’re not agreeing to it \u2014 and that then they would have been shutting (the) government down.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the second time in a week that Pelosi has criticized Schumer over his handling of the funding bill. On Friday, she suggested<\/a> his move had played into a \u201cfalse choice\u201d that President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk had offered Congress: shutdown the government or give them a \u201cblank check\u201d to slash government spending.<\/p>\n

Pelosi also praised House Democrats and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries<\/a>, her successor, for refusing to support Republicans\u2019 stopgap spending measure, despite blowback from Trump\u2019s administration and GOP leaders, who accused Democrats of risking a shutdown for political reasons.<\/p>\n

Tensions between Schumer and Jeffries blew up last week after the Senate Democrat bucked his party\u2019s move in the House. But the two have played nice<\/a> in recent days, and Jeffries said Tuesday that he supports Schumer\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

Later Tuesday Pelosi noted her and Jeffries’ shared confidence in Schumer \u2014 and she was quick to suggest Democrats are poised to recapture the House in the midterm 2026 elections amid a \u201cdrumbeat\u201d of protests over proposed cuts to Medicaid and other public programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened last week was last week,\u201d Pelosi said. \u201cWe’re going into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered a sharp critique of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday, suggesting he had forfeited a crucial bargaining chip by allowing a vote on Republicans\u2019 government funding bill. \u201cI myself don’t give away anything for nothing,\u201d Pelosi told reporters during a news conference at a children\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}