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Pelosi Hopes for Bipartisan Support for Dreamers, Police Reform

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By    |   Thursday, 18 June 2020 03:42 PM EDT

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi blasted President Donald Trump for tweeting that the Supreme Court doesn’t like him very much after the DACA ruling.

During a Thursday appearance on MSNBC’s “The Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Pelosi ripped the president for making everything about him and “not about our country.”

“It's not about whether the court likes the president,” Pelosi said. “He should know that. It's whether the court likes the Constitution of the United States.”

She said the Supreme Court's decision to block Trump’s attempt to end the DACA program, which protects young people, who were illegally brought to the U.S. when they were kids from facing deportation for a period time, isn’t “personal about the president.”

Pelosi said she doesn’t event want to think about the fact that the president could still eliminate DACA if he is reelected.

“Well, let's not even entertain that thought,” she told host Andrea Mitchell when asked about the possibility. “Let's enjoy the moment.”

When Mitchell asked Pelosi if there needs to be legislation to protect dreamers, Pelosi said she hopes there can be bipartisan support on the topic. 

"We passed the DREAM Act in 2010 in the House, and had hoped that it could be passed in the Senate, but it was not. We have now passed it again. And that would include many more people, many more dreamers, beyond the DACA category, as well as temporary protective status and some other categories,” she said, adding the proposed bill is sitting in the Senate.

She said three-quarters of voters support the dreamers.

“Overwhelmingly, Republicans, Democrats, independents support the dreamers,” she said. “Sixty-two percent of people who support President Trump support the dreamers. It's just the Republicans in the Senate who just have chosen not to see the light. But, hopefully, this decision will give them some courage.”

Pelosi said she also hopes there is bipartisan support on the police reform. The House has passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act in response to the death of George Floyd, a black man, who was killed by a white police officer.

“We always hope there can be a compromise,” she said. “We always strive for bipartisanship. We have a responsibility to find our common ground.  But when we can't find our ground, we must stand our ground, and we must stand our ground to say, no choke holds, no racial profiling, no to no-knock warrants. That list goes on.”

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