Trump clears up immigration bill confusion, pledges to back both GOP bills
by Susan Ferrechio
| June 15, 2018 06:15 PM
President Trump supports both of the House GOP immigration bills up for a vote in the next few weeks, a White House spokesman said Friday.
The announcement came after House Republicans hit the pause button on a plan to vote on immigration reform next week. They stopped action after President Trump warned in an impromptu TV appearance that he “wouldn’t sign the more moderate one.â€
Republicans feared Trump was talking about a bill authored by Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., which was written in concert with White House officials. It would incorporate the “four pillars†of Trump’s own immigration reform plan, including a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million Dreamers.
A second bill, authored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., is expected to be a more conservative bill, but it is being modified. In original form, it limits immigration and provides a more difficult path to citizenship.
Republicans planned to put both Ryan and Goodlatte bills on the floor for a vote next week.
But Trump threw the vote into doubt Friday after threatening to vote against one of the bills.
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