McConnell declines to address Trump tweets

WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is declining to address President Donald Trump’s criticism of women of color in Congress.

McConnell told reporters Monday he’d “address whatever questions” at his regularly scheduled press conference on Tuesday.

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But the Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer of New York, said Republicans who align with Trump are “making a deal with the devil.”

Schumer asked GOP colleagues, “Where are you when something this serious, this bigoted, this un-American happens?”

Trump over the weekend said the congresswomen should “go back” to their own countries. Three of the four were born in the U.S., and one is a refugee.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will vote on a resolution condemning Trump’s tweets. Schumer said Democrats will force a vote in the Senate.