Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said he will stick by the president following the idea of him striking a deal with Democrats over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Trump ended DACA — which protects young illegal immigrants from deportation — earlier this month. King, a strongly conservative congressman who has long supported President Trump, warned him in a tweet that such a deal would cost him his base but it seems King won’t pull his support from Trump just yet.
“I’m going to stick with President Trump, for all the rest of his agenda. And I’m going to do everything I can to help him keep his campaign promises,” King said on CNN Saturday morning.
He told CNN on Thursday morning that if Trump pursued a plan to protect DACA recipients — after promising to end the program on the campaign trail — that “the base will leave him.”
“Now I’m asking the president to recall the commitments that he’s made, keep them, so he can keep his base. I’m afraid it if there’s any one thing that would cause the trump base to leave him, that is to grant amnesty in any kind of a deal when it was such a strong campaign promise to end the unconstitutional DACA program,” King elaborated on Saturday.
After a Wednesday night meeting with Senate and House Minority Leaders Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Trump said Thursday: “We are working on a plan for DACA” to include increased border security funding. However, Trump and the White House have gone back and forth about an apparrant deal and his long-promised border wall.
