Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) retracted his previous offer Tuesday to support funding for President Donald Trump’s border wall in a potential deal on immigration reform and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty.

“That was part of a package. It was the first thing the president and I talked about was finishing by, as he said, Tuesday night,” Schumer said in a news conference. “The thought was that we could come to an agreement that afternoon, the president would announce his support, and then the Senate and House would get it done and it would be on the president’s desk. He didn’t do that, so we’re going to have to start on a new basis, and the wall offer is off the table.”

After forcing a government shutdown Friday, Schumer and Senate Democrats caved Monday and allowed a vote for a proposal to reopen the government for three weeks but without a DACA amnesty attached to it.

Schumer’s caving greatly angered the Democratic Party’s far-Left base. Although lawmakers pledged to work together to hammer out an immigration deal over the next few weeks, a Schumer aide told the White House on Monday that he was rescinding his border wall funding offer.

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Schumer, according to Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), “called the White House yesterday and said it’s over.”

A Schumer aide said Trump “missed an opportunity to get the wall.”

Last week Schumer offered to support more than $1.6 billion in initial border wall funding for Trump if he agreed to DACA amnesty. GOP senators even said Schumer indicated he could offer a much larger sum toward both the border wall and a border security package. But Schumer never confirmed the exact amount he would support.

“In exchange for strong DACA protections, I reluctantly put the border wall on the table for discussion,” Schumer said Friday during a speech on the Senate floor. “Even that was not enough to entice the president to finish the deal.”

But the White House maintains the president will not support any DACA deal that doesn’t include border wall funding, immigration enforcement measures, and other priorities.

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When cornered about Schumer’s decision to rescind his offer of border wall funding, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) said Tuesday on Fox News’ “Outnumbered Overtime” that “a wall has limited value from the point of view of keeping our border safe.”

But host Harris Faulkner noted that Trump supports a “wall system,” and not a literal wall spanning the entire length of the southern border.

Faulkner said many Democrat and Republican lawmakers are talking about the importance of cooperation and compromise to avoid another government shutdown.

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“How is it then today your leadership, Chuck Schumer, says, ‘I’m taking the money I previously said that we would give off the table’? What do you say about that?” Faulkner asked Cardin.

“I think what the president was asking [for] in that meeting was specifically money designated for a wall,” Cardin said. “And that has been a controversial issue because there’s many of us who believe that it has limited value in keeping our border safe. Having said that, we’re sitting down and we’re going to negotiate.”

Trump tweeted on Tuesday, “Nobody knows for sure that the Republicans & Democrats will be able to reach a deal on DACA by February 8, but everyone will be trying … with a big additional focus put on Military Strength and Border Security. The Dems have just learned that a Shutdown is not the answer!”

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), said, “It’s starting to look like Chuck Schumer and some of the other dreamer advocates are going to be willing to sacrifice reaching a deal that will give amnesty to the dreamers out of — just to spite the president. But that’s shameful, really, because the border security funding — including the wall — is just one item on a long list of things that are urgently needed for immigration security.”

She added, “He clearly thinks that the president and congressional Republicans are just going to cave if he stays in the game long enough. But that’s a risky strategy. Does he really want to throw the dreamers under the bus just to avoid a win for Donald Trump on wall funding?”

Vaughn said, “It’s almost like he’s just trying to save face more than he’s trying to save a deal for the dreamers.”

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