Over the weekend, the president took a new approach to his shutdown.

He offered Democrats a thing.

The president said that he would agree to a three-year renewal of DACA protections for

those young undocumented immigrants known as dreamers.

The president also proposed extending temporary protected status for some 300,000 others.

What is our plan?

Border security, DACA, TPS, and many other things?

Straight forward, fair, reasonable, and common sense.

Last night, the text of that offer was released, but just like before, Democrats aren't

fighting.

Democrats were issuing statements saying they rejected the offer before Trump officially

made it.

Darlin co-hosts the Weeds podcast from Vox.

On Friday night and Saturday morning, there were beginning to be reports about the deal

that Trump was going to make.

And even before the actual speech at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Democrats were coming out saying,

if this is it, we have no interest in dealing with this.

This isn't sufficient.

We're not biting.

So why is Pelosi rejecting this stuff out of hand?

There are three big reasons that kind of regardless of what came out of Donald Trump's mouth

on Saturday, Democrats were not going to be interested.

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