BORDER SECURITY DISPUTE: President Trump has comforted his political opponents while confounding his conservative compatriots by making deals with the Democrats, and a disputed report of another one last night that involved the proposed border wall with Mexico roiled Washington and lit up Twitter. Minority leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, (a.k.a. “Chuck and Nancy”), emerged from a dinner meeting with the president and issued a statement that they had reached an agreement in principle to shore up border security along the southern border in return for extending protections for so-called “Dreamers” covered under the Obama-era policy known as DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. “We agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that’s acceptable to both sides,” Schumer and Pelosi said in their statement.
But the president hopped on Twitter first thing this morning to deny any quid pro quo. “No deal was made last night on DACA. Massive border security would have to be agreed to in exchange for consent. Would be subject to vote,” Trump tweeted shortly after 6 a.m. “The WALL, which is already under construction in the form of new renovation of old and existing fences and walls, will continue to be built.”
