Kellyanne Conway mocks 'catfight' between Pelosi and freshmen congresswomen

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By QUINT FORGEY 07/09/2019 09:20 AM EDT Updated 07/09/2019 09:54 AM EDT

Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway called the spat between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and four female freshmen Democrats a "major meow moment," mocking the "huge catfight" over border aid spending between the House leader and some of her highest-profile caucus members.

Conway, in an interview with Fox News, said Pelosi had "brushed back" Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) over their opposition to a bipartisan emergency funding bill that nonetheless opened a rift among House Democrats.

“Those four female Democrats that Nancy Pelosi is brushing back, I think they are all freshman members,” the White House senior adviser continued. “A major ‘meow moment’ — brushing back in a huge catfight, really ridiculing them — and they voted against the Democratic aid package.”

The supplemental border spending package, which passed the House two weeks ago, approved $4.6 billion to address the growing humanitarian crisis at the southern border. Although they had initially passed a much tougher measure roughly along party lines, centrist House Democrats forced Pelosi to drop it in favor of legislation with fewer stipulations that had passed the Senate by a wide bipartisan margin and that the White House had signaled its approval of.

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