Ryan Remark Reveals GOP Blockade on DACA Fix – And He Thinks Trump Is His Boss
‘We’re Not Going to Bring Immigration Legislation That the President Doesn’t Support’ Ryan Says
On January 10 President Trump held a televised 55-minute bipartisan meeting of House and Senate lawmakers on immigration at the White House. After discussing many issues and options, the president closed the meeting by saying his positions on DACA “are going to be what the people in this room come up with.”
“I am very much reliant on the people in this room,” Trump claimed. “I know most of the people on both sides. I have a lot of respect for the people on both sides. And my — what I approve is going to be very much reliant on what the people in this room come to me with. I have great confidence in the people. If they come to me with things that I’m not in love with, I’m going to do it because I respect them.”
In other words, bring me a bill that has passed the House and Senate and I will sign it – even if I don’t like it.
Trump reneged on that as recently as Monday.
“Any deal on DACA that does not include STRONG border security and the desperately needed WALL is a total waste of time,” Trump tweeted Monday morning. “March 5th is rapidly approaching and the Dems seem not to care about DACA. Make a deal!”
Tuesday morning Speaker Paul Ryan was asked about a DACA bill. Here’s what he had to say.
“We will take a bill that the president supports,” Ryan, speaking about a DACA fix, told reporters. “We’re not going to bring immigration legislation [to the House floor] that the president doesn’t support.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghlzIW8qV10#t=1113
So, Trump says he’ll sign anything Congress sends him, then says it has to have funding for a wall, and the Speaker of the House says he won’t send the White House a bill Trump won’t support.
What does that sound like?
A blockade.
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