Editing Nancy Pelosi (section)

=== 2018–2019 government shutdown ===
{{Main|2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown}}
[[File:President Trump Meets with the Senate Minority Leader and the House Speaker-Designate.webm|thumb|start=15:32|President [[Donald Trump]] meets with Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader [[Chuck Schumer]] on December 11, 2018, saying "I will be the one to shut it down."]]

At the start of the 116th Congress, Pelosi opposed Trump's attempts to use the [[2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown|2018–2019 federal government shutdown]] (which she called a "hostage-taking" of civil servants) as leverage to build a substantial wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stolberg |first=Sheryl Gay |date=January 20, 2019 |title=Republicans Push Trump Immigration Plan, Seeking to Corner Democrats on Shutdown |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/us/politics/trump-government-shutdown-democrats-pence.html |work=[[The New York Times]]|issn=0362-4331 |access-date=January 26, 2019 |url-status=live |archive-date=December 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213101134/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/us/politics/trump-government-shutdown-democrats-pence.html}}</ref> She declined to allow Trump to give the [[2019 State of the Union Address|State of the Union Address]] in the House chamber while the shutdown was ongoing.<ref>{{cite tweet |author=Nancy Pelosi |user=SpeakerPelosi |date=January 23, 2019 |title=This afternoon, I sent @realDonaldTrump a letter informing him that the House will not consider a concurrent resolution authorizing the President's State of the Union address in the House Chamber until government has opened. |number=1088168895117176832}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Collins |first1=Kaitlan |last2=Liptak |first2=Kevin |last3=Acosta |first3=Jim |last4=Phillip |first4=Abby |date=January 24, 2019 |title=Trump says he won't give State of the Union during shutdown after being disinvited by Pelosi |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/23/politics/white-house-state-of-the-union-off-guard/index.html |work=[[CNN]]|access-date=July 21, 2019 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114194740/https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/23/politics/white-house-state-of-the-union-off-guard/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref> After several polls showed Trump's popularity sharply falling due to the shutdown, on January 25, 2019, Trump signed a stopgap bill to reopen the government without any concessions regarding a border wall for three weeks to allow negotiations on an appropriations bill. But he reiterated his demand for border wall funding and said he would shut the government down again or declare a national emergency and use military funding to build the wall if Congress did not appropriate the funds by February 15.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cillizza |first=Chris |date=January 25, 2019 |title=Donald Trump caved. And now the government is going to re-open. |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/25/politics/government-shutdown-donald-trump-nancy-pelosi/index.html |work=[[CNN]]|access-date=January 26, 2019 |archive-date=November 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191123003742/https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/25/politics/government-shutdown-donald-trump-nancy-pelosi/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

On February 15, Trump declared a national emergency in order to bypass Congress, after being unsatisfied with a bipartisan bill that had passed the House and Senate the day before.<ref>{{Cite news |first1=Peter |last1=Baker |first2=Emily |last2=Cochrane |first3=Maggie |last3=Haberman |date=February 14, 2019 |title=As Congress Passes Spending Bill, Trump Plans National Emergency to Build Border Wall |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/us/politics/trump-national-emergency-border.html |work=[[The New York Times]]|issn=0362-4331 |access-date=February 7, 2020|archive-date=February 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215155021/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/us/politics/trump-national-emergency-border.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:MedalCeremony 1 011520 (44 of 69) (49396285057).jpg|thumb|Congressional leaders in January 2020]]