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SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER, D-NY, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, are finding out what former business associates, builders and contractors have found out the hard way: making a deal with Donald Trump is not a sure thing.
The White House is reportedly going to submit a plan to Congress that would use its support for the DACA program a bargaining chip in exchange for Democratic support irs immigration proposals that would include cutting immigration in half.
This so-called "deal" is being spearheaded by Stephen MIller, a noted anti-immigrant zealot.
Last month, "Chuck and Nancy" thought they had reached an agreement with Trump to try and save President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that allowed the undocumented young people who were brought into the children illegally by their parents.
The meeting with "Chuck and Nancy" reportedly angered Miller, who now appears to be making impossible demands to scuttle the agreement between Trump and the Democrats.
One Republican aide told CNN: “Either the president is negotiating in bad faith, or Stephen Miller has hijacked the negotiation.”
“The Stephen Miller wish list is a non-starter with Democrats, and this divides Republicans in both the House and Senate,” the aide continued. “Until Miller takes a backseat, the DACA deal is going nowhere.”
“The Stephen Miller wish list is a non-starter with Democrats, and this divides Republicans in both the House and Senate,” the aide continued. “Until Miller takes a backseat, the DACA deal is going nowhere.”
In his drive to undo Obama actions, Trump announced by executive order that the DACA program would end by year's end. At the same time, he asked Congress to come up with a plan to save the 800,000 young men and women who have signed up for DACA.
With Miller in charge of the negotiations for the White House, it is unlikely that deadline will be met.
Ali Noorani, executive director of the pro-reform National Immigration Forum, said he thinks Trump wants to do something to protect Dreamers from deportation and understands that will require a compromise with Democrats. But he doesn’t think Miller goes along with that.
“The president is being undermined by his own people,” Noorani said.
“The president is being undermined by his own people,” Noorani said.
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