Sentences with phrase «wall funding»

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.

For example, Democrats could suggest that they might trade wall funding for a path to citizenship.

Trump, who has tried to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, reportedly wanted $ 25 billion in long - term wall funding in exchange for protections for the young immigrants.

The White House ultimately dropped the demand that the legislation include wall funding, and a coalition of Republicans and Democrats approved a bill in May that looked similar to spending measures that had been supported by the Obama administration.

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.

Sponsors: The work was funded by the American Water Works Association Research Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, PNNL's Environmental Biomarkers Initiative, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Tulane University Wall Fund.

Lori Isom, Ph.D., the co-lead of the new project and interim chair of the U-M Department of Pharmacology, notes that the Center Without Walls funding approach will especially help the U-M team, because their focus straddles two different organs.

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 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.

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.

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.

«I'm supportive of the wall and putting the wall funding in [the stopgap], but from a pragmatic standpoint, it will get stripped out in the Senate,» he said.

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.

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..

Trump again insisted on funding for his promised border wall, making clear the high hurdle faced by a bipartisan pair of senators who are backing an immigration plan that leaves out wall funding and other of his demands.

Trump cast the Affordable Care Act as the Democrats» problem and noted that it needs money to stay afloat, tweeting as his surrogates in talk show appearances said the Democratic Party must agree to border - wall funding to avoid a government shutdown.

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»

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 don't plan to go along with the wall funding, or the defense spending increase in the House bill if there are not comparable nondefense increases.