White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise

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President Trump in fact supports both of the House GOP immigration bills expected to receive votes next week and misspoke earlier Friday when he said that he would oppose a compromise measure between centrists and conservatives, a White House official told The Hill.

"Yes, we fully support both the Goodlatte bill and the Leadership bill. The President misunderstood the question this morning on Fox News," the source said in an email. "He was commenting on the discharge petition/dreamers bill — not the new package. He would 100 percent sign either Goodlatte or the other bill."

Centrists had tried to use a discharge petition to force leadership to move on four different immigration proposals, including one backed by Democrats that protects so-called Dreamers, beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/392512-white-house-walks-back-trumps-rejection-of-immigration-compromise

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Other White House officials who spoke to Breitbart News attempted to deny that Trump misspoke and claimed he does not actually back the compromise proposal.

“President Trump made his views on the Ryan amnesty bill very clear today,” one official told Breitbart. “Unless he says something different publicly, it should be presumed that he knows exactly what he was talking about and what he was saying and why.”