House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she does not have the time for President Donald Trump and his tweets about the economy and potential designs of getting Americans back to work.
"I don't care," Pelosi repeated multiple times to CNN's Dana Bash on Tuesday, rejecting Trump's hope in getting people back to work sooner than later amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
"My opinion is that it is not scientific based," Pelosi told Bash of Trump's comments "our country is not built to be shut down."
"Rather than waste any time commenting on the president, I would rather spend our time focusing on the fact that any president or anybody with responsibility should be scientifically inclined, evidence-based, data, what is going to make the difference," she added. "I think the cure is the biggest message of hope that is out there."
The Senate has some bipartisan agreement on a $1 trillion-plus coronavirus stimulus bill, but Pelosi returned to Capitol Hill to introduce a House Democrat proposal that has been panned by conservatives as attempting to squeeze in Green New Deal initiatives to a response to a health crisis as American lives under shelter in place orders.
"But central to all of that is stopping the spread of the disease, of the coronavirus – it's central to that," she said. "So, I don't have time to follow people's twits, tweets, twitters, whatever. So don't expect me to comment on them."
Pelosi did echo Trump on the strength of Americans, but she disagrees on the timetable of cutting back on social distancing recommendations to get the economy running again.
"We have the best minds in the country, 24/7, all hands-on deck trying to find a path here, and that is what will be the light at the end of the tunnel," she said. "What the president is suggesting is that light at the end of the tunnel could be a train coming at us if people are out and about in a way that spreads the disease further. But I am not here to pick a fight with the president.
"We're here to get a job done with this legislation, and I don't want to waste any energy on his tweets.
"With all due respect to the fact that he's the president of the United States, and I respect the office he holds, I am just too busy to be bothered about his tweets, and that's just the way it is."
Eric Mack ✉
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