Republicans, help Trump avoid the near occasions of sin

Published September 15, 2017 4:01am ET



If you liked President Trump’s deal with Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi on immigration, you’ll love the healthcare deal he’ll cut with them soon.

Schumer and Pelosi, the top two Democratic leaders in Congress, seemed quite pleased with the deal, of course. So pleased, in fact, that they issued a celebratory joint statement about its result. In order to secure legal status for those who illegally immigrated as children, Trump had supposedly given away his border wall — the one that he had talked about and promised non-stop since mid-2015 — in an impromptu negotiation.

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