“Speaker Paul Ryan and other GOP House members adamantly insisted that there was no agreement to enshrine protections for the immigrants brought to America as children and now here illegally.”
“John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Senate Republican, put it this way: There was “a deal to make a deal.”
” one person familiar with the meeting said the president had agreed not to the DREAM Act... “ “” the president kept referencing DACA, while Schumer kept talking about the DREAM Act...”
“We’re not looking at citizenship, we’re not looking at amnesty. We’re looking at allowing people to stay here,” Trump told reporters as he traveled to view hurricane damage in Florida.
“But very importantly, what we want: We have to have a wall,” Trump said. “If we don’t have a wall, we’re doing nothing.”
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3586039/posts
There is no agreement... YET. A deal is desired.
“we’re not looking at amnesty. We’re looking at allowing people to stay here” - very Clintonian, meaning of “is”