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After rejecting a bipartisan immigration framework, Trump turned around and publicly described Democrats as willing to shut down the government over DACA. The message was politically self-defeating: he had made the deal harder, then blamed the other side for the stalemate. That left Republicans with a weakened negotiating position and handed Democrats a clean line that Trump was the one poisoning the talks.
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After rejecting a bipartisan immigration framework, Trump turned around and publicly described Democrats as willing to shut down the government over DACA. The message was politically self-defeating: he had made the deal harder, then blamed the other side for the stalemate. That left Republicans with a weakened negotiating position and handed Democrats a clean line that Trump was the one poisoning the talks.
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After rejecting a bipartisan immigration framework, Trump turned around and publicly described Democrats as willing to shut down the government over DACA. The message was politically self-defeating: he had made the deal harder, then blamed the other side for the stalemate. That left Republicans with a weakened negotiating position and handed Democrats a clean line that Trump was the one poisoning the talks.
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