Republicans ahead of the 2018 mid-terms? it is not clear what the president wants the central issue to be. one point you think it is i immigrati immigration. he is frustrated that they have not done enough to make progress to fill fulliulfilling the prome border wall and stricter immigration laws. and at the same time, president trump is focusing more and more of the administration attention on foreign policy because he has seen the fact that extending te olive branch to kim jong-un in south korea and gunning north korea and gunning for the summit and ripping up the iran deal. that has boosted his approval ratings. that is something the president cares about a great deal. he is a brander. he is frustrated they cannot sell his accomplishments. sarah westwood, thank you. we will see how the tax cuts work with rising gas prices
we ve seen this before with immigrati immigration. this isn t uncommon for senator rubio to get ahead of his skis, see some polling because i believe in florida republicans weren t exactly happy. i know the gun community wasn t happy with what he said, particularly the nra and those to the right of the nra. it does feel like ease backtracking, maybe not realizing how much pushback there would be to this. the key thing here, though, going back to president trump, people on the hill know this. often in the context of these meetings, he might say all kinds of things. but the question is, what does he direct his staff to implement, to push forward? what does he put his shoulder into? i think there s no evidence yet that he s putting his shoulder into any of this, really. frankly, this morning, he tweeted and kind of backtracked a little bit. it raises real questions about
She said i had spoken to a recruiter a number of months ago and i was not able to sign up. she said i love this country, i want to serve my country, this is the only country i have ever know known. i d like to see her find her pathway to citizenship. if she can do that through the military, we want to help her with that. some democrats say the problem with your proposal is the limits it puts on legal immigrati immigration, family reunification. you have to get to 60 votes. anything is going to have to get to 60 votes in the senate right now. would you be able to make some concessions to democrats on this in order to get to 60 votes. i do think we re at a very good starting point right now. we know this will be an open debate process. leader mcconnell has promised that. we re at a good starting point. it mirrors what the white house has already proposed. i m okay with starting there.
Immigrati immigration. president trump says he thinks they could get a deal done. over the weekend, he said republicans want it more than democrats. the white house is floating a compromise that keeps quotas in place. alfonso aguilar is the president of the latino partnership for conservative principles. he met with officials last week who were trying to broker a deal on daca. how much do you think we re closer to getting that deal right now? i think we re close. it is because of the leadership of the white house and the president of the united states. we have to make that point clearly. the reason why congress is talking today about immigration and providing a path to citizenship up to 1.8 million dreamers, it is because of president trump. i know that that democrats don t like that idea because they they would love to use the issue politically. we re close to getting a deal.
Caughtify daca. she has urged her colleagues on the democratic side to support this. she gave them permissions not to support it. the only way a bipartisan deal works is if both parties come together to support it. there s things in this deal that democrats can rally around, raising spending caps, for example. the disaster relief funding. that s why you would see potentially, politically, the blame go to the democrats because democrats and nancy pelosi have expressed they are dissatisfied with the assurances they have received on immigrati immigration. that s why they wouldn t be supporting this deal, not because of the deal itself. but as i understand it, paul ryan has not given that commitment. he has. he has. no. what he has said is he wants to get daca done and he will only bring a bill to the floor that the president will support. that s not what mcconnell has