Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that despite the looming April 28 deadline, President Donald Trump hasn’t been negotiating with Democrats on a deal. “I don’t know where they came up with that,” Schumer told reporters on a conference call, adding that he’d had one conversation with White House budget director Mick Mulvaney and that was to tell him Trump’s budget proposal was dead. Rather than try to push the White House’s vision, Schumer suggested Mulvaney and Trump leave it to the lawmakers. “I said to him that the best thing he can do is let the four corners ― House Republicans, House Democrats, Senate Republicans, Senate Democrats — negotiate this 2017 budget as well as the 2018 budget, and we might be able to come up with things,” Schumer said. “But I think talks are going pretty well right now, and the White House doesn’t have to throw a monkey wrench into it.”

Source: Huffington Post April 11, 2017 17:03 UTC