The White House tried to keep expectations low for the meeting on infrastructure on April 30 between President Trump and Democratic congressional leaders including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said prior to the meeting that ”it would not surprise me” if the negotiations soured.

Despite these doubts, the Democratic leaders left the meeting crowing that it had been “very constructive.” Schumer even claimed that Trump had agreed to a dollar figure for a bipartisan infrastructure deal, $2 trillion over 25 years.