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To: Sam who wrote (455207)	10/16/2020 11:55:35 AM
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Pelosi and Trump go a full year without speaking By Cristina Marcos - 10/16/20 06:00 AM EDT Friday marks a full year since Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and President Trump last spoke to each other. The anniversary of sorts underscores the historic level of dysfunction and discord between two of the most powerful people in Washington. Almost every occasion where Pelosi and Trump have crossed paths since Democrats won the House majority in 2018 has shown how much they can’t stand each other, let alone attempt to strike any legislative deals together like other past presidents and Speakers of opposing parties. Their last extended conversation, during a sit-down meeting at the White House on Oct. 16, 2019, resulted in the two sides unable to agree on whether Trump called Pelosi a "third rate" or "third grade" politician and her telling reporters afterward that “we have to pray for his health.” Their relations have only worsened since then. While Pelosi has been able to negotiate bipartisan legislation with White House intermediaries like Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, lawmakers say the open personal animosity between the president and the Speaker is emblematic of the entrenched partisanship in the Trump era. “It's a sad commentary on the circumstances of our governance,” said Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), a first-term lawmaker. “The more that politics becomes kind of a brutal sport rather than a public service, the more trouble we're going to be in. We're seeing the evidence of that right now.” Pelosi has said that it's difficult to negotiate with someone as unpredictable as Trump, who in the last 10 days alone has changed positions at least three times on a long-stalled coronavirus relief package that at times even put him at odds with Republicans on Capitol Hill. continues at thehill.com