From NBC News:
NBC NEWS - President Donald Trump blasted top congressional Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer as all talk, no action and "weak" on key issues like crime and immigration after the duo canceled a meeting with him on Tuesday.
"They've been all talk and they've been no action, and now it's even worse — now it's not even talk," Trump told reporters at the White House as he sat sandwiched between two empty chairs — one for Pelosi and the other for Schumer.
The president said he wasn't surprised that the Democrats opted out of the planned meeting at the White House with him and congressional GOP leaders.
In their absence, Trump roasted Pelosi and Schumer as "weak" on crime and immigration — accusing them of wanting people to pour into the U.S. illegally — while also remarking that boosting the military is "always second" to them, but is "number one" to Trump. Further, the president said, "they want high taxes, we want to cut taxes."
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who met with Trump at the White House piled on, with the Speaker calling it "very regrettable" that the Democrats chose not to attend despite pressing issues facing the country. McConnell that in all his years in D.C. he "can't recall ever turning down an opportunity to go down to the White House."
"You cannot negotiate...without the person who signs the bill (Trump) in the room," McConnell said, adding that the Democratic leaders "need to understand the way the government works."
Later, Pelosi ripped Trump for the empty chair "photo op" and said his "verbal abuse" wouldn't be tolerated.
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