Why Is President Trump Making a Deal With Democrats? He Just Wants a Win

President Trump may finally be putting his deal-making skills to work in Washington. Over a Chinese food dinner in the Blue Room of the Executive Mansion, Trump seemed to reach an agreement in principle with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi that would preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. A week after cutting a deal with the two Democrats to raise the debt limit while funding hurricane relief, Trump once again reached across the aisle—cutting out Republican congressional leaders in the process. It’s unclear whether the deal to protect Dreamers will be consummated or how long Trump’s outreach to Democrats will last. As Democrats celebrated, the White House walked back the idea that an agreement had been reached, and the President’s tweets provided little clarity. While the rumored agreement fits the broad outlines of what lawmakers on Capitol Hill are thinking, the deal will hinge on its details. What’s clear is that days after Trump announced he would rescind DACA with a six-month sunset period, the President is still wrestling with his decision to end the widely popular Obama-era executive action, which threatened to become a political albatross for him and Republicans writ large. Wednesday night’s dinner was advertised as an opportunity to begin talks on congressional action to protect roughly 800,000 people brought to the U.S. illegally as children. And yet Democrats walk...
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