mike coffman. a lot of republicans speaking, eric canon, my boss. focus on the kids. take care of them first. sounded like a good message. didn t resonate through the party and couldn t get any ledge solution through on immigration by and large and why congress may end up stuck again. also, doug, you have harvey funding to deal with. the president s hope for tax reform has to get done. this is, adds another thing to that list. go back to the sandy relief package. one of the most controversial things that we dealt with at the tile. remember, chris christie attacking john boehner every day. now we re talking about linking it up to debt ceiling increase. other must-pass bills. interesting dynamic here that s different, you have conservatives from texas in the pass might have supported offsets. coupling it with something saying, stay off this bill. they tend to be conservative, also the largest republican delegation in the house. they ll have influence there. what do you think abou
louisiana in the aftermath of hurricane harvey is going to be their number one priority. but the president is going to north dakota tomorrow so sell his tax reform plan a little bit more, so we will see some progress there, potentially. but what s also going to be really interesting about this meeting is that it s his first time meeting with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell since they ve been in this very public battle. we know they had a profanity-laced phone call while the president was on his working vacation in new jersey, so there are a lot of outcomes that could happen with this meeting. tax reform, repairing and repealing obamacare, that s the main things they need to fix. it is time to get this thing done, and i don t think the legislative branch needs to look to the executive branch on these issues. toii want to talk to you bece we re mentioning harvey funding.
for deferred action for childhood arrivals, daca. likely to turn it over to congress. does this lead to immigration reform in congress? what about combining the border wall concept with daca? everybody understands our immigration system is broken. congress needs to act, and this is a role for congress. that s one thing we can talk about. we need to secure our borders but we also have to have an immigration system that works. if i m correct about what the president will do, he will give congress six months to act and congress needs to do their job and solve the problem. mike: there has been talk of tying harvey funding to raising the debt ceiling. that s never a popular vote with your republican members. here is steven mnuchin from fox news sunday. stick with the president and i believe it should be tied to the harvey funding. our first priority is to make sure that state gets money. it s critical.
picture, i think, is ridiculous. i believe it is unconstitutional. that s why nine attorneys generals are filing this lawsuit. and i think that it is better left up to congress who can consider these things and have hearings and so forth. by the way, president obama also said it was unconstitutional at one point, yet he went ahead and did it. so you re saying leave it up to congress. congress has a lot of other items on its plate. of course, as we mentioned, it is going back tomorrow. it has tax reform to deal with, harvey funding, the debt ceiling, preventing a government shutdown. what do you think, congressman? does the white house need to do more in dealing with congress to get things done? no. congress has its own self to blame. i was in congress for 22 years. when you are in the majority, you need to work five days a week. you need to work late into the night. you can t do a three-day-a-week schedule and sit on things. for example, there are 12 different appropriation bills.
the snenate? there might be. the daca children already have protection in the workforce. what the president is doing is taking away that protection they have, that certainty they have under the daca program. i wasn t sure what he was referring to. yes, we should pass comprehensive immigration reform. it should deal to make sure people have status here in the united states, a pathway to citizenship. those types of issues should be dealt with with comprehensive immigration reform. at a minimum we need to protect the dak that children. also on the president s plate is harvey funding. congressman sessions said they should untie raising the debt ceiling and harvey relief. treasury secretary steve mnuchin says he wants them together on one bill. what is there the votes for in the senate? should they be tied together or separa