David Bossie fired back at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi after she said President Trump was "utterly unprepared" to be commander-in-chief. 

"At first, there was a thread of being an impostor that may have been in his mind,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) told The New York Times. " He's overcome that now." 

“The bigger problem, the thing people need to understand, is that he was utterly unprepared for this," she said. " It would be like you or me going into a room and being asked to perform brain surgery.  When you have a lack of knowledge as great as his, it can be bewildering." 

He said Pelosi makes calculated remarks like these for political purposes. 

"It's one of the reasons why Donald Trump got elected in the first place," Bossie said. " He is not a career politician.  He is a change agent that came to Washington to fix Nancy Pelosi's broken status quo." 

He pointed to the booming economy, stock market and employment figures under Trump. 

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff of California said that "people have suffered enough" because of President Trump and that a real leader would re-open the part of the government that has been shuttered since December.