Pelosi: Dems Rejected Wall Funding 'Because It Was Wrong'

It was essential for congressional Democrats to not cave in to President Donald Trump's demand for billions to build a border wall "because it was wrong," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., says.

In The Washington Post interview posted Monday, Pelosi said the president's "advocating for a wall . . . [was] in sharp contrast to every president before him in modern times."

"[T]he wall is not even a campaign promise because he promised Mexico was going to pay for it," she added. "It's a campaign applause line of discrimination and bigotry. And it's just not right, and it doesn't do the job."

Pelosi told the news outlet the president she quotes "most on the campaign trail" is Ronald Reagan.

'He talks about the Statue of Liberty and what it means to the world to see this beacon of hope, what it means to people who came here, people who are coming here," she says. "Except this president used a message of fear against immigrants . . ."

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