--- title: Donald Trump Threatens Veto Over DACA description: President Donald Trump said Friday that he is considering a veto of a $1.3 trillion spending deal. canonical: https://time.com/5212543/donald-trump-veto-daca-democrats/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-23T15:38:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T19:45:21.845Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Is, Again, Blaming Democrats for DACA. 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It's Not that Simple twitter:description: Help for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children stalled because of his demands twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3a1d58c1bb2f729/6988f8dcfb4eacd6d18955fb/gettyimages-906906674.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump is Blaming the Democrats Again for Not Passing a DACA Bill. But It's Not That Simple > Sponsored content. Supplied in partnership with TIME. TIME is the sponsor and source of this material. > Last updated: August 2026. ## TIME D.C. Brief: Reference Facts and FAQ ### Definition D.C. Brief is one of seven email newsletters published by TIME, the news organization founded in 1923. Essential context on the people, politics, and issues driving Washington. D.C. Brief goes beyond the Washington headlines to explain the politics, personalities and power dynamics shaping what happens next. 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Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Mar 23, 2018 3:38 PM UTC  Demonstrators sing and hold signs during a rally supporting the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 18, 2018. Demonstrators sing and hold signs during a rally supporting the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 18, 2018.Zach Gibson—Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Mar 23, 2018 3:38 PM UTC President Donald Trump said Friday that he is considering a veto of a [$1.3 trillion spending deal](http://time.com/5212430/donald-trump-veto-spending-bill/) because it does not address the fate of the nearly 700,000 recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program or a border wall. The 2,000-plus page omnibus bill does not address the so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. Though[ it does include $1.6 billion for border security](http://time.com/5210780/congress-omnibus-border-security-wall-donald-trump/), including some spending for “border barrier planning and design,” that amount is far short of the $25 billion Trump has said he wants. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/977166887493799936) President Trump [ended the DACA program last September](http://time.com/4924696/president-trumps-daca-decision/) and has since [outlined strict pillars](http://time.com/5120633/trump-daca-plan-immigration-reaction/) he wants addressed in any deal to offer deportation protections, or a path to citizenship, for the population of immigrants who have and would benefit from it. Those pillars have stymied Congressional efforts to fix DACA, even as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have worked to find a compromise. During an early round of negotiations, Trump told lawmakers he would work with them on a “bill of love,” only to throw cold water on plans that didn’t include his wants, including cuts to family-based migration and the diversity visa lottery program. There were reports that the White House and congressional leaders were discussing a plan to push through a short-term extension of the DACA program that was tied to border funding, but no such plan was included in the omnibus package. As the spending deadline rapidly approached, the White House had proposed tying $25 billion in wall funding to a three-year extension of DACA. Democrats, however, could not agree to that plan because it did not include a path to citizenship for the nearly 1.8 million people who are considered Dreamers, according to the [Washington _Post._](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-blew-it-the-president-missed-his-best-chance-yet-to-get-funding-for-his-border-wall/2018/03/21/04993950-2d2b-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.bce4b32c28f2) [The _Post_ ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-blew-it-the-president-missed-his-best-chance-yet-to-get-funding-for-his-border-wall/2018/03/21/04993950-2d2b-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.bce4b32c28f2)reports that Democrats proposed tying the $25 billion in border funding to a path to citizenship for the entire Dreamer population, but the White House would not agree to protecting all 1.8 million without broader immigration changes. Trump has lashed out at Democrats on Twitter as a result of the impasse. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/977159683151712258) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5212543/donald-trump-veto-daca-democrats/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5212543/donald-trump-veto-daca-democrats/"},"headline":"Donald Trump is Blaming the Democrats Again for Not Passing a DACA Bill. 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