President Trump said Tuesday that Democrats would have to end “phony investigations” if any bipartisan agreement on infrastructure is to come to fruition.
Trump pulled together a hastily organized press conference in the Rose Garden after a meeting between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. The president said that Democrats’ continued insistence on investigating him and his administration after the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report is killing infrastructure plans.
“I walked into the room and I told Sen. Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, I want to do infrastructure. I want to do it more than you want to do it. I’d be really good at that. That’s what I do,” Trump said. “But you know what? You can’t do it under these circumstances — so get these phony investigations over with.”
The two Democratic leaders left the White House just minutes after arriving. Trump had previously said that progress had been made on a bipartisan infrastructure meeting, with Schumer even floating a $2 trillion price tag, but after today’s meeting, it appears those efforts have halted completely.
