Trump Plans Tuesday Meeting With Pelosi and Schumer, Source Says

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...si-and-schumer

President Donald Trump will meet next week with the two Democratic congressional leaders, Representative Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer -- days before part of the U.S. government may close down, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The meeting will take place on Tuesday, after the president’s return from the Group of 20 summit in Argentina, said the person, who requested anonymity to discuss the plans.

Pelosi, the minority leader of the House of Representatives who hopes to return as speaker when Democrats take control of the chamber in January, and Schumer, the Senate’s minority leader, will be talking about the dispute that may force a partial shutdown on Dec. 7 as well as other issues, the person said.

Trump, who made renewed warnings about illegal immigration the centerpiece of his campaign in the midterm elections, has demanded more money for a wall on the Mexican border. House Republicans have passed a spending bill that includes $5 billion for the wall, while Senate Democrats have proposed $1.6 billion for the project.

“If we don’t get border security, possible shutdown,” Trump told reporters Thursday as he departed the White House for Argentina.


Pelosi’s office released a statement on Friday night setting out her immigration priorities for the new Congress. “Of course, we will meet our responsibility to provide strong, smart border security that serves our country’s needs, is consistent with our values, and doesn’t squander billions of dollars on a border wall," she said in the statement.

Funding is set to end on Dec. 7 for some federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, the Internal Revenue Service and the National Park Service. Congress already passed full-year funding for many other federal agencies, meaning they would remain open.

Earlier this week, Richard Shelby, the Alabama Republican who heads the Senate Appropriations panel, said $5 billion was a red line for Trump. But Shelby has proposed splitting that $5 billion over two years, and the White House is considering that proposal.

The government has already had two partial shutdowns this year. Senate Democrats prompted a three-day shutdown in January by trying to force Trump to sign a bill sparing young immigrants, known as dreamers, deportation. Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky caused one lasting a few hours to protest spending increases in a two-year deal over budget caps.

It looks like they will be talking about immigration / boarder security. Maybe they'll cut a deal with Trump for the boarder wall? If he's meeting Pelosi and this is her current standing on the matter ( http://dreamact.info/forum/showthread.php?t=82973 ), chances are dreamers will be brought up in the discussion.

Democrats have no incentive to fix DACA soon. They wanna wait and make it a playing card for the 2020 presidential election run.

On the meantime Trump is desperate as he runs out of bargaining power to make one of his presidential camping flagship issues a reality.

I'll be surprised if DACA is even mentioned in the meeting, hope I'm wrong, but in reality nothing will happen till after 2020 when EADs start to expire if Supreme Court strikes it out in 2019.

Really hope I'm wrong there and these suckas fix the issue ASAP. Running out of patience here.

DACA itself is interesting. Are we talking about current daca holders? People eligible daca? Aged out DACA? or even DAPA?

It's possible for them to cut a deal for current DACA holders for border security, and the democrats can still campaign for DACA eligible people or more in the 2020 election. If democrats get nothing and gives up more money for the wall after this meeting, you can be more sure that they want all forms of DACA to be a 2020 issue. It'd also be a bad deal since democrats got nothing. We'll see I guess.

Watch them walk in and be like “we need to protect mueller for border security” lmaoooo

All we need is a few tweets from Trump and we will be back in business. Watch Trump blast Dems for not wanting to support DACA right now if they refuse to fund his wall

Trump would never agree to protect Muller. Muller protection won't happen in the senate and Trump would never sign it into law. I really don't see democrats offer something non-immigration related for the border wall at this point.

Democrats are fucking stupid and just buy into whatever narrative is popular right now lol.

They will agree to protect mueller and fund ham sandwiches and tools for Pianos, so he can help reinforce the fence. Sounds good.