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Thank you, this is what I am referring to ... tho this appears to be regarding the DECEMBER spending bill, I think good to keep an eye on Ryan regardless! Was not sure what was meant by the term "whole ball of wax" in the article, which concerns me. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-daca-omnibus-conservatives_us_59efd21ce4b0b7e63265bb76 Paul Ryan Tells Conservatives DACA Will Be Part Of Spending Deal House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) privately conceded to a group of House conservatives on Tuesday that he plans to include a legislative fix for undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children in a year-end spending deal. Asked if he envisioned a December omnibus spending bill including Cost Sharing Reductions for Obamacare or some sort of solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Ryan told leaders of the Republican Study Committee that he didn’t believe CSR payments would be part of the deal with Democrats, but that DACA would. “He did talk about the fact that that would be good if we could get ahead of that as opposed to being reactionary,” RSC Chairman Mark Walker (R-N.C.) told HuffPost Tuesday night. When HuffPost asked Walker if Ryan had said Republicans didn’t have the votes to do something on DACA alone, and therefore needed Democratic support, Walker said, “It wasn’t as clear cut as that ― and it rarely is, actually ― but he did make reference that [DACA provisions] would be something that might be part of the whole ball of wax.”

We do need to be suspicious of Ryan trying to sneak DACA into the appropriation bills at the end of the year.

There will likely be an omnibus spending bill (packages many of the smaller regular appropriations bills into one larger single bill that could be passed with only one vote in each house).

President Trump must demand funding for the Wall and no DACA at the end of the year.

Immigration is changing this country. I’m discouraged by the whole thing. Democratic politicians want immigration so they can import new Democratic voters. Republican politicians want immigration to appease big corporations. They want immigration so they can pay lower wages.

Big corporations are NOT a friend of rank and file Republican voters.