Trump administration officials try to clarify president's 'revisit' DACA tweet

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico



By LOUIS NELSON 09/06/2017 09:56 AM EDT Updated 09/06/2017 10:37 AM EDT

The Trump administration Wednesday morning sought to clarify President Donald Trump’s promise to “revisit” the DACA program if Congress does not meet his deadline to codify protections for so-called Dreamers into law.

But beyond an assurance from Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores that Trump would put increased pressure on Congress to deal with DACA, neither she nor counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway were willing to more fully flesh out what exactly the president might do with his promised “revisit.”

“Nobody should be committing the president's time to this six months from now. Let's have Congress act,” Conway told Fox News Wednesday morning, accusing Capitol Hill of “punting these issues to the executive branch” by failing to make law in the past.

“Congress should be acting on this. They either can choose to act or not to act. But it's congress who makes the laws in this country," she said. "If they feel that strongly about this, they should act.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/06/trump-daca-dreamers-tweet-justice-department-242375?lo=ap_a1

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Conway Refuses To Say What Trump’s Pledge To ‘Revisit’ DACA Actually Means

By ESME CRIBB Published SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 10:36 AM

Senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday refused to specify what President Donald Trump meant by saying he would “revisit” the terminated Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program if Congress failed to address it.

“What President Trump means is that if Congress fails to act as they have for the last seven months on this issue, and now they get an additional six, that’s a total of more than one year to take up DACA as they wish, then perhaps he will revisit it,” Conway said on Fox News. “He will look at that at the time.”

“The suggestion is that he would reconsider the decision of yesterday. Is that what he means?” Bill Hemmer, co-host of “America’s Newsroom,” asked Conway.

“The suggestion is that he will revisit any type of issue that requires additional presidential action,” she replied.

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[yallerdawg]

1. First you 'draw a line in the sand.'

Then you erase it, and pretend like you never did.

That way, you are responsible for nothing!

Other than incompetence and being profoundly unqualified.