Crucial Meeting
Sen. John Thune said “I hope a year-end solution, a pathway to making sure you guys are home on Christmas Eve instead of hanging out here with us.”
The meeting would be an important decision making moment for Trump. He needed the votes to have his spending bill passed.
If he doesn’t get the support he needed the bill would fail.
Rep. Andy Biggs said “Congress should pass single-subject legislation, which maximizes the transparency of our votes to constituents. It would be a grave mistake to add DACA reform to the spending bill.”
Rep. Tom Cole said “you don’t want to have a spending showdown shutdown crisis before the midterms next year. So I think it’s important for both sides, honestly, to reach that agreement.”
He added if “you try to hold the entire government hostage to a single issue,” Cole said, there’s a risk of making the “same mistake Republicans made in 2013 over Obamacare. It’s very apt to backfire.”
Democrats were unlikely to listen to such advice. Without much leverage of any kind, Democrats would certainly pressure Trump.
It was now a matter of waiting to see who would get what they wanted. The meeting might just be the high point of the spending bill drama.
