Schumer Pleads for Money and Denigrates ICE in White House Meeting with Trump

President Donald Trump invited New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer to the White House only to hear him complain about money, Obamacare, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Axios reported that the Thursday visit was the first meeting between the two since last year’s government shutdown.

Granted, the intent of this meeting was to discuss Trump withholding money for the Gateway Tunnel Project in New York, which he did in response to Schumer’s party shutting down the government, but this public works project has a whopping $16 billion price tag.

Had Schumer solely focused his attention on that matter, yes, it’d be an appropriate exchange between public officials, but why miss an opportunity to talk about government-funded healthcare and ICE?

Schumer also made a plea for