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2 verified reports published on January 11, 2018.
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The basic Trump-world pattern held on January 11, 2018: create expectations, blow them up, then insist the explosion was leverage. On a day that was supposed to test whether a bipartisan immigration deal could survive contact with the White House, the answer came back pretty fast. It could not.
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A bipartisan Senate group said it had reached an immigration framework, but the White House almost immediately said there was no deal. Trump then made clear he would not sign anything that omitted wall funding, turning a possible breakthrough into another deadline-day scramble.
Trump said he would not approve an immigration deal unless it included wall funding, reinforcing the hardline stance that was already boxing him in. The result was to make a compromise harder just as a bipartisan group was trying to lock one down.