Read the ‘script’.
If you try to bring it up via the Senate...there’s easily forty-six Democrats and around eight Republicans. So they could craft this and pass it with the McCain-club in tow.
But then you come to the House. You would need 218 members to pass. So you count up...194 Democrats. You would have to find 24 GOP members. At best, I would suggest that you can only find ten GOP members who would go and vote for this. It’ll fail in the House.
So, I think what Trump is designing is his tax reform package that will couple up to the DACA episode. You will get one with the other.
Naturally, the McCain-character will spend hours and hours on TV and blaming Trump, but Trump will bring out the thirty-odd House members to deliver DACA as part of a total package. McCain will have to accept tax reform...same for McConnell.
So it’ll pass. But here’s the thing. The current DACA package is built with age discrimination written all over it. If it ever passed (it never did on the eight occasions it was up for passage)....it would have gone to the Supreme Court within two years. Trump knows that. The Supreme Court will invalidate it within two years of passage because of the discrimination.
McCain will sit there shocked in 2021 as this comes up and screaming that DACA needs to fixed yet again after being revoked by the Supremes.
Settle back...enjoy the show, and the whole way that we will get tax reform to occur. It’ll all be one single package...accept tax reform and you get DACA (temporarily).
FWIW, McCain isn't likely to be around in 2021. Glioblastoma has a statistically poor prognosis.