Thread: Pre adjournment DACA: Pelosi, Si; Ryan, No

Ryan: DACA fix will be separate from spending bill

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 11/14/17 08:14 PM ESTSpeaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Tuesday that lawmakers are not planning on wrapping legislative relief for young immigrants brought to the country without legal permission as children into an end-of-year spending bill.Asked by Fox News's Bret Baier in a town hall-style interview whether the spending bill would include measures to codify protections for beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Ryan said lawmakers plan to consider the matters separately.
"No, we’re planning on doing that separately," Ryan told Baier. Asked to clarify, Ryan replied: "We’re planning on keeping that separate from spending."
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DACA, an Obama-era program, has temporarily shielded certain young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. President Trumpmoved in September to end the program, but gave Congress a six-month window to take action and enshrine DACA's protections into law.
The last day for beneficiaries to apply for DACA was Oct. 5, while those whose permits end on March 6, 2018, or later will see their DACA benefits end at that time unless they previously applied for renewal.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers in both the House and the Senate have called for a legislative fix for DACA by the end of the year, a move that remains uncertain despite signs of bipartisan cooperation earlier this year.
Ryan has pushed back against attempts to tie DACA to other legislative priorities this year, saying earlier this month that it should be "considered separately" from end-of-year deadlines.






Pelosi: ‘We will not leave’ without DACA fix

BY MIKE LILLIS - 11/09/17 04:06 PM ESTHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that Democrats will insist on protecting “Dreamers” from deportation before year’s end.

Pelosi’s position highlights the ever-increasing odds of a showdown over immigration next month when Congress must extend funding for the government.

President Trump has promised Senate Republicans that he won’t support an omnibus spending bill that includes protections for those enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which he rescinded in September. And Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Thursday suggested that Republicans want to kick the issue into next year.

But Democrats have insisted on such a fix next month, at the latest, and they’re increasingly threatening to withhold their support for a spending bill unless it includes a DACA fix — or Republicans find another legislative vehicle to move it this year.

The Democrats will have leverage in the spending fight, both because of the Senate filibuster and because House Republicans have typically struggled to win enough GOP support to pass budget bills on their own. Those dynamics lend the Democrats power to make certain demands, and DACA is quickly moving near the top of the list.

“I’ll have to see what the spending bill is,” Pelosi said Thursday during a press briefing. “But I fully intend that we will — we will not leave here without the DREAM Act passing with a DACA fix.

“I’ve made that very clear.”

Republicans, however, have a different timeline in mind.

Ryan noted Thursday that Trump, in ending DACA, gave Congress six months to pass legislation protecting participants from deportation. The Speaker said Republicans would prefer to address the issue as a stand-alone bill — “on its own merits” — rather than as part of a large spending package. And he suggested GOP leaders aren’t rushing, given the March 5 deadline.

“I don't think there's really any need to have artificial deadlines within the one we already have,” Ryan said.

“Having said that, though, our members are having lots of conversations,” he added. “We have a working group on this issue. And that working group is now going to spread out and start talking to our broader conference.”

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Thursday that the negotiators are nearing a deal on a DACA package, which they’ll then shop around to the conference.

“I think we’re getting close to a product and at that point we’ll go into listening sessions,” McCaul told The Hill.

Yet those talks have excluded Democrats, and the package the Republicans are said to be eying will likely be a nonstarter with many liberals, raising questions about how GOP leaders plan to get a DACA fix to Trump’s desk without Democratic buy-in.

Pelosi said Thursday that, while it was a mistake for Trump to rescind DACA, she trusts the president when he says he wants to protect those currently in the program.

“I think President Trump does respect the fact that the Dreamers have the support of over 80 percent of the American people, and that's why he would be interested in getting something done,” she said.

“We're not kicking the can down to March.”



https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/67e5311...x-will-be.html
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/35...thout-daca-fix


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Nothing would tickle me more than for Nancy and Chuck to spend the entire Christmas break all alone in the Capitol standing for their illegal aliens. Hopefully some of our side can take some pictures.

I don't have a lot of regard for Ryan, but think it is likely that Congress will adjourn with no DACA, and that next year it will be so slow to be taken up, that many of the recipients will have expiration. Who knows where it will go from there? Promises are always good political strategy, but how often are they kept, anyway?

The Senate should add the RAISE ACT to the Senate Tax Cut Bill, because that would result in so much welfare savings, there probably wouldn't be any deficit at all. Then the "fiscal hawks" can jump on board with that, they can reduce the corporate and business pass through rates to 15% for both and get Johnson on board, give everyone their state and local tax deductions back which would unify all the Republicans from the high tax states, and sail this puppy through to Trump's desk by ... December 12.

Think Big, Go Bold. It's now or never.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!