Congress February 7, 2019

Politico: “There Will Not Be Another Shutdown” – Speaker Nancy Pelosi

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 07: U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks during her weekly press conference on February 7, 2019 in Washington, DC. Pelosi answered a questions about House investigations of President Trump to ongoing negotiations to fund the federal government beyond February 15. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

In an interview with Politico, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted House and Senate negotiators will come to an agreement to keep the government open. The deadline is next Friday.

“There will not be another shutdown,” Pelosi confidently asserted during a half-hour interview Wednesday in her Capitol office. “No, it’s not going to happen.”
After the 35-day shutdown — and the political drubbing that Trump and Republicans took during the record-breaking impasse — Pelosi predicted GOP leaders won’t go down that road again.
“I have a club that I started, it’s called the ‘Too Hot to Handle Club.’ And this is a too-hot-to-handle issue,” Pelosi quipped.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she believes a bipartisan House-Senate panel negotiating on border security will come to an agreement before the Feb. 15 funding deadline https://t.co/5GwRWDXzFG
— POLITICO (@politico) February 7, 2019

Meanwhile, at her weekly news conference, she refused to discuss Donald Trump’s criticism of Democratic-led House investigations.

Nancy Pelosi: "I am not commenting on what the president has to say about our work. I always think that whatever the president says about us, he's projecting his own unruliness. He's a projector." Via ABC pic.twitter.com/XESRmczGP5
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 7, 2019

Nancy Pelosi says a kitchen worker recently told her, "'When the president says that the Mueller investigation is going on too long, you just say back to him, Not as long as your tax audit, Mr. President.' I thought those were words of wisdom." Via ABC pic.twitter.com/HjUjSluLiN
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 7, 2019