Ryan: 'There is no agreement' on DACA

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY SCOTT WONG - 09/14/17 01:11 PM EDT

Shortly after speaking with President Trump, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday there is still “no agreement” with Democrats on how to help thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

“There is no agreement. The president and [his] chief of staff called me from Air Force One today to discuss what was discussed, and it was a discussion, not an agreement or a negotiation,” Ryan told reporters at his weekly news conference. “These were discussions, not negotiations. This isn’t an agreement,” he said.

The Speaker’s remarks came after a confusing 18 hours in which the two top Democrats, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), emerged from a White House dinner with Trump and announced that they had reached an agreement in principle over how to handle 800,000 recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

That emerging agreement, the Democrats said, includes protecting the DACA recipients from deportation plus some border security measures that Republicans favor. The border wall that Trump campaigned on would not be part of this deal, both sides agreed.



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As Trump talks DACA deal with Democrats, GOP leaders try to reassert control

By Elise Viebeck, Ed O'Keefe and Mike DeBonis September 14 at 2:52 PM

Republican leaders in Congress sought to reassert their authority with an unpredictable White House Thursday as President Trump dangled a potential deal with Democrats to allow hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), in his first public comments since Trump met with Democrats the previous night, agreed in broad strokes with his goal of protecting “dreamers” and toughening U.S. border security.

But Ryan dismissed the possible deal as preliminary “discussions” and insisted any agreement must have buy-in from GOP leaders.

“The president understands he has to work with the congressional majorities to get any kind of legislative solution,” Ryan said at a news conference on Capitol Hill.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trumps-dealing-on-daca-sparks-confusion-shifting-alliances-on-capitol-hill/2017/09/14/c9b2c904-994c-11e7-82e4-f1076f6d6152_story.html?

[machoneman]

1. Poor Ryan!

Outfoxed, outmaneuvered, outsmarted!

Maybe we get together a GoFundMe page to buy him....a big crying towel!

More disappointment to come, Eddie Munster!

[Cosmocat]

3. Not for nothing, but he's the Speaker of the House

he holds the key to one of the chambers.

I don't get how people are talking about this.

45 can't do jack with Schumer and Pelosi.

Ryan and Turtle aren't going to let anything they come up with go anywhere, they have a couple hundred blood thirsty radical members of their caucuses who, based on modern full on crazy republican standards would just short of literally tar and feather them if they did.

[Massacure]

8. Actually Ryan cannot single handedly kill the bill

The House has a concept that's called a discharge petition. If a majority (218) of the members sign a discharge petition against a piece of legislation, it skips committee processes and automatically comes to the House floor. Of course that means that Pelosi needs to get 40 or so Republicans on board.

I'm not familiar with any similar rule in the Senate.

[Freethinker65]

2. This would be fun if Dreamers lives were not involved

Ryan knows the wall is stupid and that DACA is popular, but now Pelosi has him and Trump in a very awkward position. If they go all in for a wall, taxpayers and sane Americans will not be happy...and any decrease in taxes/GOP tax plan is practically dead. If they give up the wall for DACA by passing a clean bill, Pelosi will now be seen as winning by the lunatic Trump supporters.

Unfortunately those with lives depending on DACA have to live through this back and forth political gamesmanship.

[Cosmocat]

4. Yeah, I don't get what people are seeing here

So 45, Shumer and Pelosi are playing footsy?

1) Ryan and Turtle are not going to do ANYTHING that Schumer or Pelosi scheme up because they would basically be turning over their leadership, particularly Ryan, who would all but be tarred and feathered by his lunatic's within an hour of doing so.

2) They literally could give a shit about public perception, they are long past that.

3) The Rs in congress are going to come up with a tax plan that screws us and pays their obligatory tithe to their masters, and pass it.

[underpants]

5. But but but

Trump said his administration is “working with everybody” to achieve that. “Republican, we’re working with Democrat. I just spoke with Paul Ryan. He’s on board. Everybody is on board,” Trump said. “They want to do something.”

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. Right, there is no agreement.

When something passes House and Senate, and is signed by the prez, then there's agreement.

Until then, it's discussion.

[ananda]

7. So, 45 lied when he said Ryan an McConnell were on board.

What a surprise!