Sentences with phrase «border wall funding»

White House officials reportedly have told key GOP leaders on Capitol Hill that President Donald Trump is open to striking a deal that would protect young immigrants from deportation in exchange for border wall funding as part of an upcoming spending bill.

President Trump pledged swift federal aid to Texas and Louisiana on Monday as the two states seek to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and dismissed the notion that his threatened shutdown of the government over border wall funding could impact the effort.

The White House initially offered a roughly three - year DACA extension in exchange for $ 25 billion in border wall funding, Axios reported on Thursday, citing Congressional sources familiar with the negotiations.

In reality, of course, Democrats tried to strike a deal with Trump to offer a legislative fix for immigrants protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in exchange for border wall funding.

President Donald Trump pledged swift federal aid to Texas and Louisiana on Monday as the two states seek to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and dismissed the notion that his threatened shutdown of the government over border wall funding could impact the effort.

Democrats then suggested exchanging the $ 25 billion border wall funding for a pathway to citizenship for the 1.8 million immigrants, but the Trump administration turned them down, demanding broader immigration reforms in return for the broader population of Dreamers, The Washington Post reported.

In recent weeks, for instance, on another issue germane to his appeal to his base — immigration — the White House was unwilling to irritate the base and worked to scuttle a bipartisan Senate compromise that would have shielded hundreds of thousands of people who had been brought to the US illegally as kids in return for border wall funding.

Congress needs to pass a new one for the new fiscal year and President Trump has actually been fairly explicit that he may want to shut down the government if he doesn't get some border wall funding and some other things that he wants.

But the issue only rose to a discussion item when Trump made a late - hour push for a deal in exchange for border wall funds.

Two of the biggest remaining issues had been border wall funds and a legislative response to gun violence after the clamor for action following recent school shootings, including the one in Parkland, Fla..

Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic House leader, wrote on Twitter, «@realDonald Trump, that border wall funding you are asking for (again) could do so much more good in other places... #NoWall»