Trump Re-Starts Immigration Talks After Senate Ends Shutdown
Demonstrators protest the government shutdown and the lack of a deal on DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) outside of Federal Plaza on January 22, 2018 in New York City.
Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
President Donald Trump dove back into negotiations over immigration legislation on Monday, hours after the Senate indicated it would move to end a three-day government shutdown.
The president met for lunch with six conservative Senate Republicans -- Tom Cotton of Arkansas, John Cornyn of Texas, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, James Lankford of Oklahoma, David Perdue of Georgia, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina -- shortly after leaders in the Senate announced they had brokered an agreement to keep the government open for almost three more weeks. Trump met later in the afternoon to discuss immigration with two centrist Democrats who’d voted with Republicans to keep the government running -- senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Doug Jones of Alabama.