{"id":24708,"date":"2017-09-14T03:03:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T03:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24708"},"modified":"2017-09-14T03:11:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T03:11:39","slug":"daca-pact-deal-or-no-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24708","title":{"rendered":"DACA pact? Deal &#8230; or no deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Trump-moves-on-Mexican-wall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24200\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Trump-moves-on-Mexican-wall-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Trump-moves-on-Mexican-wall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Trump-moves-on-Mexican-wall-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Trump-moves-on-Mexican-wall.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump had a couple of dinner guests at the White House tonight.<\/p>\n<p>They were Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the Senate and House Democratic leaders, respectively. &#8220;Chuck and Nancy&#8221; emerged from the dinner meeting and announced a &#8220;deal&#8221; they struck with the president that would produce a permanent agreement to keep &#8220;Dreamers&#8221; in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>I refer to the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals act that Trump supposedly rescinded the other day. He gave Congress six months to work out a legislative fix to DACA, which seeks to protect those who were brought to the United States illegally as children.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the DACA matter has been put on a fast track. Oh, and get this: They report that Trump has agreed to <em>forgo building the wall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not so fast, says White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who tweeted out something about minutes after Chuck and Nancy announced the deal that the president didn&#8217;t agree to scrap the wall idea.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you believe? Two seasoned politicians who know their way around the Capitol Hill pea patch or a president who is not wired to tell the truth?<\/p>\n<p>Trump, by the way, hasn&#8217;t yet weighed in with his own tweet about what he agreed on with Chuck and Nancy.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the two leading congressional Democrats have just scored another win over the &#8220;best deal maker&#8221; the world has ever seen.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump had a couple of dinner guests at the White House tonight. They were Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the Senate and House Democratic leaders, respectively. &#8220;Chuck and Nancy&#8221; emerged from the dinner meeting and announced a &#8220;deal&#8221; they struck with the president that would produce a permanent agreement to keep &#8220;Dreamers&#8221; in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24708\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DACA pact? 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