"Tensions are flaring between the White House and a moderate Republican senator who claimed a young Trump aide was standing in the way of a bipartisan deal on immigration reform.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a longtime advocate of comprehensive immigration reform that leans in the direction of Democrats, blasted hardline Trump-whisperer Stephen Miller Sunday as a meddlesome 'outlier.'
The White House fired back, using the same word to describe Graham in a Washington version of 'I know you are, but what am I?"
Graham's complaint is that Miller, 32, has long been undercutting Trump's ability to cut a deal that might have made Friday's government shutdown unnecessary.
'As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration, we are going nowhere. He's been an outlier for years,' Graham told reporters at the Capitol on Sunday."
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"The White House said Sunday that it's Graham, not Miller, who is operating outside America's mainstream.
'As long as Sen. Graham chooses to support legislation that sides with people in this country illegally and unlawfully instead of our own American citizens, we are going nowhere. He's been an outlier for years,' said White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5298259/Stephen-Miller-Lindsey-Grahams-crosshairs.html
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a longtime advocate of comprehensive immigration reform that leans in the direction of Democrats, blasted hardline Trump-whisperer Stephen Miller Sunday as a meddlesome 'outlier.'
The White House fired back, using the same word to describe Graham in a Washington version of 'I know you are, but what am I?"
Graham's complaint is that Miller, 32, has long been undercutting Trump's ability to cut a deal that might have made Friday's government shutdown unnecessary.
'As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration, we are going nowhere. He's been an outlier for years,' Graham told reporters at the Capitol on Sunday."
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"The White House said Sunday that it's Graham, not Miller, who is operating outside America's mainstream.
'As long as Sen. Graham chooses to support legislation that sides with people in this country illegally and unlawfully instead of our own American citizens, we are going nowhere. He's been an outlier for years,' said White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5298259/Stephen-Miller-Lindsey-Grahams-crosshairs.html