But by the time the senators arrived to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.to discuss the deal with Trump, a gaggle of ultra-conservative Congress members had apparently convinced the president to change his mind – despite the fact that the deal addressed all of the problems the White House had previously outlined to lawmakers.
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With federal funding set to run out at midnight Friday, the disagreement also raised the specter of another government shutdown. Senator Dick Durbin, on the other hand, has been emphatic that the president did use this language, and that’s been backed up by some of Durbin’s Republican colleagues.
Democrats’ efforts to present a united front on Dreamers could soon break apart along 2018’s political fault lines. These resolutions are what have left us with the current January 19 deadline to come to an agreement on this year’s government budget. It was unclear whether the House Republican leadership would get enough votes to pass the measure in that chamber.
Relations between key Republican and Democratic lawmakers have soured over whether Trump made the comment during last week’s meeting. Any recipient whose status was due to expire within six months also got a month to apply for another two-year term.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned that a government funding bill should not be held “hostage” to the immigration debate. “For these reasons, the realistic deadline for successfully establishing a DREAMers program in time to prevent large-scale loss of work authorization and deportation protection is only weeks away”.
“The folks from DACA should know the Democrats are the ones that aren’t going to make a deal”, Trump told reporters.
Before Bannon had a public falling-out with the president over the former adviser’s comments in a new book about the Trump White House, the expectation had been that Bannon’s involvement might tempt Trump to interject himself into some those fights. “That DACA deal should stand on its own”. “I think we all have a pretty good idea of what we have to do”. “An issue of this magnitude must go through the normal legislative process”, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement.
Asked what he thinks about people who think he’s racist, Trump said: “I’m not a racist”. That way your immigration totals aren’t going up, they’re staying the same and you’re internally immigrating people who are already here.
Democrats have done all they can to avert a shutdown and the ball is in the Republicans’ court, said Durbin, who backed a Dreamer deal.
The strategizing comes as Democrats and some of their Republican allies said they will work around the president to try to pass an immigration deal this week, hoping to build bipartisan support and isolate a playing defense after ‘s latest gaffe.
Top Democrats have signaled they will not support a spending bill unless they also reach a deal to shield hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. “And I’m telling you it’s a gross misrepresentation”, Perdue said on ABC’s “This Week”. President Trump announced in September that the program will be terminated by March 5, 2018, which will lead to the deportation of almost 700,000 DREAMers brought as children to the United States.
DACA recipients are commonly referred to as “dreamers”, based on never-passed proposals in Congress called the DREAM Act that would have provided similar protections for young immigrants. He again denied using the vulgarity and said “a lot of sticking points” remain in the immigration talks. But the members, all Republicans, insisted in interviews that the solution goes hand in hand with border security.
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The bipartisan deal called for $2.7 billion for an array of border security steps. They don’t want security at the border, there are people pouring in.
