David Plouffe, a former top Obama adviser still close to the White House, sees a future in which fixing the technical problems of Obamacare will give President Obama the energy and clout he needs to finally accomplish his most important second-term priority: immigration reform.

“Let’s fast forward to the State of the Union and the months after that,” Plouffe said on ABC on Sunday. “Health care working better, a lot of people signing up, the economy continuing to strengthen, hopefully no Washington shutdowns. I think the president’s numbers will recover, I think people’s confidence [in Obama] will recover, and then we need to push Congress to do immigration.”