President Barack Obama on Wednesday told Democratic donors in San Francisco that there is a narrow sliver of time to pass legislation on guns and immigration before next year’s midterm elections.
“Now, this year, we have a window. Just completed one election. We would like to see some governing done in Washington before the next election starts,” Obama said, according to the official White House transcript. “And so we’ve got this opportunity that we need to seize to initiate serious gun safety legislation, reduce gun violence to make sure that we finally get a comprehensive immigration reform done, because we are a nation of laws but we are also a nation of immigrants, and those two things are not incompatible.”
Obama was raising money for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The fundraiser was held at a private residence.
