Originally Posted by jaylove16

Further complicating a potential breakthrough: Republicans say they won't negotiate on immigration while the government is shut down.

“I think it’s more difficult to get any agreement on DACA in a shutdown,” said House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy while walking into a Saturday morning meeting with GOP leaders. He was referring to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, shielding hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children from deportation, known as Dreamers.

“My advice is: if they got government open again, they’re more likely to get an agreement,” McCarthy added.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...hutdown-352225

They must think democrats are dumb and stupid?