US Democrats withdraw offer to fund Trump’s border wall

The so-called continuing resolution keeps the government funded until February 8 to allow Congress time to reach a longer-term budget agreement.

For Jovan Rodriguez of Brooklyn, New York, a Dreamer whose family came from Mexico when he was 3 years old and ultimately settled in Texas, the latest development was more of the same.

“That basically sets the DACA discussion back”, he told reporters.

“I was more negative yesterday, last night, than I was today”, said Sen.

The shutdown took effect Saturday on the one-year anniversary of the president’s inauguration, but the White House maintains that Trump came out the victor in the GOP’s standoff with Democrats.

The blame game was in full force this weekend, with Trump tweeting about how the shutdown began with the first anniversary of his inauguration: “Democrats wanted to give me a nice present”.

“Should be able to get there”.

What’s more, Schumer put Trump’s border wall on the table in negotiations over the weekend – showing flexibility on the matter that may only embolden Republicans to push harder for concessions.

“I think if we’ve learned anything during this process it’s that a strategy to shut down the government over the issue of illegal immigration is something that the American people didn’t understand”, McConnell said. The Democrats seemed sensitive to being seen by voters as willing to tie up government operations to protect immigrants in the US illegally. President Donald Trump ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, late a year ago, but he gave Congress until March 5 to pass legislation extending it. DACA protects some 700,000 immigrants from deportation.

And even if a bill passes the Senate, it could have a much tougher time in the House, where Republicans say they will not be bound by any deal made in the Senate.

Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., one of the targets of Trump taunts, said he would enter new talks without one of his pre-shutdown offers.

One potential issue is that the deal to vote on immigration proposals applies only to the Senate. Action by the House of Representatives and Trump’s signature will also be required.

The House is pushing a longer list of immigration enforcement measures as part of any deal that complicates efforts to strike a compromise.

The immigration debate will be most daunting, reminiscent of 2013 when the Senate passed an ambitious immigration overhaul only to see it ignored by the GOP-led House as “amnesty”.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer lent his backing to the agreement during a speech on the chamber’s floor.

Far beyond Washington, disappointment and depression rippled through the Democratic universe, which had been filled with excitement and energy just last month after a historic Senate victory in Alabama.

“This Congress needs to get a heart and grow a backbone”, the California-based Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights said in a statement.

Most Democrats seem willing to terminate the program in exchange for DREAMer protections, but how is still in dispute. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said: “The great deal-making president sat on the sidelines”. “We will make a long-term deal on immigration if, and only if, it is good for our country”.

In what is a persistent temptation for Democrats, Schumer forgot that the rest of the country doesn’t regard Trump with the deep disdain and abiding alarm of the coasts and the major metropolitan areas.

Now many lawmakers in both parties are hoping the moderate group will continue to exert its influence to break the logjam, even as a few ideological factions were plotting how to stamp it out.

Still, there were fresh signs of a willingness to keep hunting for a solution, with a flurry of meetings on Capitol Hill and an assessment from White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders that “I don’t think they’re that far apart”.

“I don’t want to get too excited because we’re still in a CR, which is a tool of the minority”, the North Carolina Republican said.

The president, top Republicans and their allies had some success in framing the showdown as a case of Democrats putting the interests of “illegal immigrants” ahead of USA citizens, a line of attack Democrats felt they could not weather.

The Senate and House passed a resolution to fund the government through February 8.