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On ABC's This Week, Leader Pelosi to Trump: Where's the Infrastructure Bill?

April 30, 2017
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This morning, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Jonathan Karl on ABC's This Week to discuss the broken promises during President Trump's first 100 days in office.  Pelosi highlighted the President's failure to propose any legislation to boost growth in jobs, infrastructure, and the economy, despite Democrats' willingness to work across the aisle to create jobs for hardworking Americans.

Leader Pelosi also hit President Trump on his immoral, ineffective, and expensive border wall which would be created at the cost of cutting initiatives that benefit the middle class and those who aspire to it.

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Below are the highlights.

On President Trump's Inaction on Jobs and Infrastructure:

"What is he proposing?  A bill that had 17% support in the public in his health care bill.  He hasn't really proposed anything.  We're looking for the infrastructure bill, which we welcome and want to work with the President on."

"We said we would work on a tax reform for fairness and transparency, but what did he put out but a wish list for billionaires."

On President Trump's Immoral Border Wall:

"He never said – did you ever hear him say, 'I'm going to charge the American people tens of billions of dollars...opportunity costs the education of our children, of infrastructure throughout our country, investments in biomedical research,' which is he is cutting so we can have this immoral, ineffective, expensive, unwise wall.  No."

"Overwhelmingly the American people support a path to citizenship for the people who are in our country.  We have to protect our borders, that's our responsibility as a nation, north and south."

On Unity in the Democratic Party:

"In terms of unity? 100% unified.  That's how we were able to work with an outside mobilization channeling the energy of the American people to defeat [Republicans'] drastic, horrible health care bill."

"The Democratic Party is unified.  I would say my number one critique of the Democratic party is we have walked the walk, but we haven't talked the talk.  All we do is fight for America's working families against special interests that the Republicans represent but that has not come across."