President Trump had a meeting scheduled today with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It probably didn’t go as bad as it could have gone but it didn’t go well.

A White House meeting between President Trump and congressional leaders ended abruptly on Wednesday after Democrats again rejected the president’s demand for more than $5 billion to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Just left a meeting with Chuck and Nancy, a total waste of time. I asked what is going to happen in 30 days if I quickly open things up, are you going to approve Border Security which includes a Wall or Steel Barrier? Nancy said, NO. I said bye-bye, nothing else works!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2019

Schumer says that Trump "slammed the table," walked out of a meeting and called it "a waste of time" after Nancy Pelosi said she wouldn't agree to his border wall. Via CBS pic.twitter.com/C8TQ268Qxl

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 9, 2019

Chuck Schumer, coming out of the W.H. meeting, said that Trump "just got up and walked out" after about 30 minutes.

"Again we saw a temper tantrum because he couldn't get his way."

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 9, 2019

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1083109954641428483

The question is who will feel pain first. With about 70% of the government open and the administration following a strategy of keeping open those functions which have the greatest public relations impact, there is very little pressure on Trump to deal. Conversely, the people out of work are largely people living in heavily Democrat areas (like suburban MD, VA and the District of Columbia). I don’t think this intransigence by Trump is going to hurt him no matter how much Schumer and Pelosi try to make themselves seem reasonable. The bottom line is that no matter what spin they put on it, Trump walked away because the Democrats refused to negotiate. Trump, it seems to me, is following the first basic rule of negotiations, which is never enter into one you can’t walk away from.

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