Trump in his latest interview with The Associated Press revealed that the authorities of Trump presidency are not targeting the dreamers to throw out the country.
U.S. President Donald Trump remains committed to building a wall along the U.S. -Mexico border, but indicated Monday he is willing to wait until later this year for Congress to consider funding the project rather than insisting it be included in negotiations to avoid a government shut down this week.
But on the heels of the failed GOP health care effort, Republicans are hoping to avoid an embarrassing episode as they try to prove they are a party that can govern effectively. With little to show in legislative victories so far, the Trump administration would love to claim achievements on Capitol Hill by that day - this Saturday.
One must-do on Trump's agenda this week is to help Congress to avert a partial government shutdown by enacting a short-term spending bill by midnight Friday.
The prospect of political pain also failed to defuse a bitter political standoff over a Republican attempt to defund Obamacare in 2013 when the government closed for 16 days in the first such shutdown for almost 20 years.
That Trump didn't choose the middle path has been a relief to lawmakers and operatives within the Democratic Party, who, early in the administration anxious that a controversial president would pad his resume and earn plaudits with unconventional governance.
The conservative leadership in the Upper House on Tuesday presented a new proposal with the wall construction funds out of the equation, although it includes funding for strengthening security along the US-Mexico frontier, Senate officials said.
Or maybe Trump sensed that the conservative journalists he hosted at the White House on Monday didn't think he should risk marking his 100th day with a government shutdown, and he told them what they wanted to hear.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said over the weekend that a deal could get done, if the president stays out of it and lets Congress negotiate among itself.
Trump's concession on wall funding removes obstacle from spending talks
The White House was also hoping for a revival of the failed health care efforts ahead of that marker. The spending package must be approved no later than Friday to avoid a government shutdown.
Dave Cortese, president of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, said in a statement: "The politics of fear emanating from the Trump White House has just suffered a major setback". A day before that, Trump said he wanted "both" health care reform and a budget bill the same week.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of SC, who hasn't been shy about criticizing Trump, said that the president's understanding of Congress from Inauguration Day until now has improved "one hundred percent", and that Trump has done more outreach in 100 days than former president Barack Obama did his entire time in office. Internal Department of Homeland Security estimates have put the cost at $21.6 billion (£16.83 billion).
Mulvaney also said Trump would not agree to including Obamacare subsidies in a spending bill.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said there was a need to boost border security funds, adding, "But a 2,200-mile wall, I don't think there's a whole lot of support for it". He promised health insurance "for everybody" but supports a bid by House Republicans to snatch it away from 24 million people. He repeated an assertion made last week that bipartisan negotiations in Congress were going well until the White House began demanding money for the wall as a condition for accepting a funding bill.
"He's finding out that the skills he may have used to cut real estate deals don't translate very well on Capitol Hill", said Jim Manley, a veteran of former Senate minority leader Harry Reid and former MA senator Ted Kennedy's offices. These include a prohibition against insurers charging higher premiums for seriously ill customers.
But the running room is expected to run out sometime this fall, requiring Congress to pass a bill raising the government's federal borrowing limit - a process it did grudgingly several times during the Obama administration - and without incident for many decades before that.
But it might persuade conservatives who felt the earlier Republican bill didn't erase enough of the statute, though it's unclear it will win over enough of them to achieve House passage.
The plan "has real merits worthy of consideration for all the Freedom Caucus folks", said Representative Mark Meadows, leader of that group.
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