Kellyanne Conway: Democrats ‘scattered like cockroaches’ in DACA talks with Trump

Published March 25, 2018 2:43am ET



White House counselor Kellyanne Conway compared Democrats to “cockroaches” while arguing that they are treating Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipients like a “political bludgeon” and aren’t looking for a solution for their status in the U.S.

Conway made the comparison while speaking with Fox News’ Jesse Watters in an interview that aired Saturday evening. She was defending her boss’s decision to sign the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending legislation into law, despite senators having little time to read the 2,232-page bill and Trump’s frustration with its paltry border security funding and failure to codify protections for undocumented youth.

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