But as the leader of the majority party conducting these negotiations, he can certainly demand that they open the negotiations. As he said:
"We will work on this process publicly... we'll have the negotiations publicly on CSPAN... it will be transparent and accountable to the American people... one of my jobs as the president will be to guide this process so that it is an honest process..."
Of course he won't, because he's giving away our money for votes.
Professor Alexander Tyler wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic based on which the United States has arguably modeled:
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.”