“We know bipartisanship could craft a 21st-century immigration plan, but this administration chooses to cage children and tear families apart.”Democratic House members react to President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. A few minutes into the presidential address, House Democrats offered a real-time fact check of Trump, who had arrived at the Capitol aiming to reintroduce himself as a post-partisan dealmaker. The president’s words, an offer that the White House had telegraphed with promises of “comity,” would not come to pass. When Trump decried “ridiculous partisan investigations” the new Democratic House has launched, Pelosi sighed in a pantomime of exasperation. In the Democrats’ view, the danger was personified by Trump’s behavior in office and his racially charged efforts to divide the country.

Source: Washington Post February 06, 2019 05:10 UTC