The irony of Pelosi’s position was that in the area she wanted to focus on, policy, she couldn’t accomplish much beyond symbolism; in the area she wanted to downplay, oversight of Trump, she actually did have the power to do things with the House alone. At the same time as the House investigated Trump’s many scandals, she was negotiating with the administration to revise NAFTA, seeking bipartisan deals on prescription drug pricing and infrastructure, and working to achieve a budget agreement—sometimes to howls from the left, which thought any engagement with Trump threatened to “normalize” his
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