Trump Says He’ll ‘Revisit’ DACA In 6 Months If Congress Fails To Address It

President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 14, 2017, to talk about the shooting in Alexandria, Va. where House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of La., and others, where shot during a Congressional baseball practice. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 14, 2017, about the shooting in Alexandria, Va. where House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of La., and others, where... President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 14, 2017, about the shooting in Alexandria, Va. where House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of La., and others, where shot during a Congressional baseball practice. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) MORE LESS
Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

Just hours after the Trump administration announced it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, President Donald Trump said that he would “revisit” DACA if Congress failed to pass a bill with the program’s policies.

It’s not clear how Trump would “revisit” DACA without the help of Congress after he claimed on Tuesday that he ended the program in an attempt to limit the executive branch’s power.

By nixing DACA, Trump fulfilled a major campaign promise after he ran on a platform attacking immigrants. However, once in office, Trump wavered on the issue and said that he would treat DACA recipients with “great heart.” He echoed this sentiment Tuesday afternoon, saying he has “great love” for DACA recipients and urging Congress to act on the matter.

Latest Livewire

Notable Replies

  1. Donnie don’t like bad reviews.

    But since his word carries zero weight, this is all just smoke and mirrors, bait and switch, lying and hoping people forget (here’s news for you, Donnie, we won’t forget).

  2. Avatar for bdtex bdtex says:

    That’s reassuring.

  3. Wait, so the DACA executive action by Obama was presidential overreach that threatened the Constitutional balance of the nation, but if Congress doesn’t act Trump will do it again?

    The other thing that hit me was this is like setting a withdrawal date from Iraq which gives the bad guys an out, by saying he’ll take care of it if Congress doesn’t he gave them an out.

  4. I´m sure that the DACA kids will rest a little easier tonight.

    I don´t imagine that he´s trying to give Congress an out. The six month ¨reprieve¨ itself was nothing but Trump´s attempt to lessen criticism of him by foisting the decision on a non-functioning Congress. In terms of public opinion, that didn´t go over too well, so now he´s trying to diffuse the mess by making another vague ¨promise¨ which, like all previous instances of feigned ¨decency¨, will go nowhere.

    (I)n late April he sent a different message, telling the Associated Press that young people covered by the program could “rest easy” because his priority was deporting criminals. “This is a case of heart,” he said.

    By March ´18 he´ll be saying something. equally reassuring. And meaningless.

  5. Listening to Morning Joe again—the joys of being in the US.
    Trump didn’t anticipate the reaction to his decision. Oh, come on.

    Ah, the morning movements:

Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com

56 more replies

Participants

Avatar for system1 Avatar for daveminnj Avatar for kendyzdad Avatar for mondfledermaus Avatar for trnc Avatar for wanderer Avatar for sniffit Avatar for sickneffintired Avatar for johnrm Avatar for tomanjeri Avatar for maxaroo Avatar for ronbyers Avatar for fiftygigs Avatar for zlohcuc Avatar for jonney_5 Avatar for docd Avatar for tsp Avatar for rickjones Avatar for jacksonhts Avatar for lizzymom Avatar for tiowally Avatar for corncaucus2008 Avatar for ncgirl741 Avatar for centralasiaexpat

Continue Discussion
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Deputy Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: