Nancy Pelosi folded on Thursday and agreed to hold a vote on a Senate version of a $4.6 billion humanitarian aid bill for the border that both the White House and the moderate wing of her party wanted.
Her reversal came a few hours after she accused Donald Trump of 'endangering children' and warned the president she is a 'lioness' when it comes to protecting kids.
Democrats pushed the blame on Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer.
'Schumer backed us into a corner by giving away too many votes on the Senate version,' a Democratic leadership aide told DailyMail.com.
Schumer supported the bill along with a majority of Democratic senators.
House moderates also reportedly told Pelosi they wanted a vote on a 'clean' version the Senate legislation, citing its bipartisan support. A 'clean' version means no amendments added, such as the sweeteners Pelosi put on the House version of the measure to ensure liberal support.
'I would be considered one who's not inclined to violence and in anyway of but if you start endangering children I become a lioness, you get near those cubs and it just evokes a response that is natural,' she told reporters in the Capitol on Thursday.
'And as a mother five and a grandmother of nine I just feel that way about all children,' the speaker added.
Nancy Pelosi and the White House have gone to war over a $4.5 billion humanitarian bill for the border
President Trump prefers a Senate version of humanitarian aid
The White House laid down the gauntlet during Pelosi's press conference, putting out a statement urging the House to pass the Senate version of border aid bill that contains provisions more preferable to the administration.
'The only ones delaying help for the children are the Democrats,' said press secretary Sarah Sanders in one of her last statements.
'We have already negotiated a broadly supported bipartisan funding bill. It is time for House Democrats to pass the Senate bill and stop delaying funding to deal with this very real humanitarian crisis,' she said.
House Republicans, in a great display of theater, lined up on the House floor Thursday morning to ask the chamber take up the Senate bill for a vote.
They all gave some same version of the legislative request: 'I asked unanimous consent to take the speaker's from the speaker's table HR 341 with the Senate amendment there to and concur in the Senate amendment. This bipartisan bill passed the Senate with 84 votes and could be sent to the president's desk for his signature today.'
One by one they made a motion only to be denied by Democratic Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee of Texas, who was presiding over the chamber.
'As the chair has previously advised, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained,' she said repeatedly to each motion.
House Republicans line up on the chamber floor to ask Democrats take up the Senate version of a humanitarian aid bill
Pelosi, who is deeply Catholic, said the debate over the two versions of the legislation was about 'God's children' and protecting them.
'This isn't about threats or challenges or anything, it's s only about humanity and the courage to do what is right for the children,' she said.
And she placed the blame for the impasse in negotiations on Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
'The president
