Pelosi defends Baltimore hometown, says Kushner a 'slumlord'

by LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent

Thu, August 1st 2019, 8:15 PM UTC

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, joins Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on the way to sign the budget package just passed in the Senate to permit the government to resume borrowing to pay all of its obligations and would remove the prospect of a government shutdown in October, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

In this file photo from Tuesday, April 2, 2019, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Elijah Cummings, D-Md., leads a contentious meeting to call for subpoenas during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. In the latest rhetorical shot at lawmakers of color, Trump this weekend vilified Cummings' majority-black Baltimore district as a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" where "no human being would want to live." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

A mail carrier delivers mail at a home at the Dutch Village apartments, Tuesday, July 30, 2019, in Baltimore. The apartment complex is owned by Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President Donald Trump, who days earlier vilified Congressman Elijah Cummings' majority-black Baltimore district as a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" where "no human being would want to live." (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, joins Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on the way to sign the budget package just passed in the Senate to permit the government to resume borrowing to pay all of its obligations and would remove the prospect of a government shutdown in October, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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