Trump's threat was first disclosed by Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, during a news conference outside the White House. The White House said in a Friday statement that Trump had sent the slideshow briefing to every member of Congress, as such. Trump made his first appearance behind the podium in the White House press briefing room on Thursday afternoon to plug his border wall on camera. The White House has repeatedly suggested that Pelsoi would loosen her grip on border wall funding once she was formally named speaker. 'We're not doing a wall,' Pelosi said Thursday after she'd taken the gavel in the House.

Source: Daily Mail January 04, 2019 16:09 UTC