Former Koch Brothers Exec Now White House Staffer Marc Short: Trump 'Willing to Expand' DACA Amnesty
Former â Never Trumpâ  Koch brothers executive turned White House staffer  Marc Short  told NBCâs Meet the Press that  President Trump  would be âwilling to expandâ an amnesty beyond the nearly 800 000 illegal aliens shielded from deportation by the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
During an interview with NBCâs Chuck Todd  Short made the claim that in negotiations to give reward illegal aliens with amnesty   Trump  would be âwillingâ to give a pathway to U.S. citizenship or permanent legal status to not just the nearly 800 000 DACA illegal aliens enrolled in the program  but also the illegal aliens who are eligible for DACA  an unlawful population that would mean 3.5 million illegal aliens being given amnesty.
MARC SHORT: Things that need to be clarified on that because sometimes what Democrats have done is say theyâll authorize it without appropriating it which is a game here. Democrats have voted before to authorize lots of money that never happens. So we need to clarify that. But we see progress. On our side they said they want the 690 000 DACA population expanded. Senator Durbin has made the case that say many people did not register and they should not be held harmful. Weâve been willing to expand that population. So thereâs progress happening here which  again  leads us  Chuck  so then why are we shutting down the government? [Emphasis added] CHUCK TODD: Well  I guess thenâGraham/Durbin say that they put this offer out here. Now youâve got Chuck Schumer saying it. So why not  why not say  âOkay  it seems like we have the parameters for a deal.â Democrats are willing. You guys are arguing over whether youâre going to appropriate it or not. But it seems as if what they thoughtâChuck Schumer says what he thought he had an agreement of that the president changed his mind a few hours later. I guess the question I have for you is whoâs in charge of the presidentâs position on immigration because what heâlook at Lindsey Graham. There was twoâhe calls him Tuesday  Trump  versus Thursday  Trump . Whatâs the difference here? MARC SHORT:  President Trump  is being crystal clear on what  he  wants and  he  has not wavered in that  Chuck. What Lindsey Graham and Senator Durbin offered to the president was to say  âHere  weâve narrowed it down to these four areas youâve asked us to.â When they came over to the White House and presented them we found them to be woefully insufficient inside those four areas. But nonetheless we had narrowed down the broader debate into a smaller one. We feel like we are making progress on the overall discussion. We think we will get to a solution. What befuddles is to say weâre going to not pay millions of our troops serving around the world. And weâre not going to pay our border agents until  until whatâwe donât know what it is theyâre asking for. Theyâve said  âGive us a shorter CR.â Tonight the Senate Republicans vote  instead of a four-week CR on a three-week CR. And yet Democrats are still are unwilling to give us their vote to keep the government open.
Shortâs statement does not align with populist conservative Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) statement on Saturday that  Trumpâs  standpoint on immigration has ânot withheld or shifted  its  positionâ on immigration  where the White House has consistently said they would be open to amnesty for only illegal aliens enrolled in DACA if they were given a slew of pro-American immigration reforms in return.
 The reforms Trump has been demanding for months  include full funding for a border wall  an end to the process of âchain migration â and an end to the Diversity Visa Lottery program. According to the White Houseâs longstanding position   these reforms  would be in exchange for legal status for only illegal aliens enrolled in the DACA program.
Likewise  the Visa Lottery  which Trump has demanded an end to  randomly imports 50 000 foreign nationals every year from a multitude of countries  including those with known terrorism problemsâsuch as Afghanistan  Algeria  Egypt  Iraq  Lebanon  Libya  Nigeria  Saudi Arabia  Somalia  Trinidad and Tobago  Venezuela  Yemen  and Uzbekistan.
A Pulse Opinion Research poll conducted this month found that 60 percent of American likely voters wanted to see the Visa Lottery ended  as Trump has demanded. The same poll also found that nearly 60 percent of likely voters want to see chain migration ended as part of any immigration deal.
Despite now being a part of the Trump administration  Short has a long history opposing the president and his agenda  as well as working alongside the Koch brothers  two pro-mass immigration billionaires who are major donors to the Republican establishment  as the director of the group Freedom Partners.
In May 2016  during the height of the Republican presidential primary  where  Trump  was taking the country by storm on  his  populist-nationalist âAmerica Firstâ agenda  Short was heading an effort to derail the then-front-runner.
At the time  National Review exclusively reported that Short was leading an effort inside the Koch brothersâ organizations to take down  Trump  and  his  agenda  partly by supporting Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)  who infamously helped author the Gang of Eight amnesty bill that would have given the 12 to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. a pathway to citizenship:
On a frigid Tuesday in February  a team of top political operatives from the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce  the umbrella group that controls political activities for the sprawling donor network led by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch  arrived in Kansas for a meeting that they hoped would turn the tide of the presidential campaign. Theyâd set aside $150 million to spend on paid media alone  to be spread across campaigns at the federal  state  and local levels. Yet they had not been authorized to spend a dime on the White House race. Marc Short  then president of Freedom Partners  wanted to change that. He led a faction inside the Koch network that had become convinced of the need to neutralize  Donald Trump  before  his  momentum made  him  unstoppable. Fresh off  Trumpâs  landslide victory in New Hampshire one week earlier  and staring down another likely  Trump  win in South Carolina that Saturday  Short and  his  lieutenants had come to Wichita to present Charles Koch with a detailed  eight-figure blueprint for derailing the Republican front-runner on Super Tuesday  when eleven states would vote. They hoped to get the green light to hammer  Trump  with ads in the states where  he  was most vulnerable.
Just a week after  Shortâs  efforts to lead a full-fledged Koch-funded operation against  Trump    he  signed onto the Rubio campaign.
After Short left the Kochâs Freedom Partners   he  praised the open borders  billionaire donors  saying  âCharles and David have built an amazing network of donors and activists  and their investments in future generations will pay huge dividends.â
Marc Short  who's running legislative affairs in #Trump WH  previously led 'Never Trump' mvmt inside Koch orgsâ¦ https://t.co/bX4LYR7i9k â John Binder ð½ (@JxhnBinder) September 19  2017
Former â Never Trumpâ  Koch brothers executive turned White House staffer  Marc Short  told NBCâs Meet the Press that   [TGT] would be âwilling to expandâ an amnesty beyond the nearly 800 000 illegal aliens shielded from deportation by the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
During an interview with NBCâs Chuck Todd  Short made the claim that in negotiations to give reward illegal aliens with amnesty    [TGT] would be âwillingâ to give a pathway to U.S. citizenship or permanent legal status to not just the nearly 800 000 DACA illegal aliens enrolled in the program  but also the illegal aliens who are eligible for DACA  an unlawful population that would mean 3.5 million illegal aliens being given amnesty.
MARC SHORT: Things that need to be clarified on that because sometimes what Democrats have done is say theyâll authorize it without appropriating it which is a game here. Democrats have voted before to authorize lots of money that never happens. So we need to clarify that. But we see progress. On our side they said they want the 690 000 DACA population expanded. Senator Durbin has made the case that say many people did not register and they should not be held harmful. Weâve been willing to expand that population. So thereâs progress happening here which  again  leads us  Chuck  so then why are we shutting down the government? [Emphasis added] CHUCK TODD: Well  I guess thenâGraham/Durbin say that they put this offer out here. Now youâve got Chuck Schumer saying it. So why not  why not say  âOkay  it seems like we have the parameters for a deal.â Democrats are willing. You guys are arguing over whether youâre going to appropriate it or not. But it seems as if what they thoughtâChuck Schumer says what he thought he had an agreement of that the president changed his mind a few hours later. I guess the question I have for you is whoâs in charge of the presidentâs position on immigration because what heâlook at Lindsey Graham. There was twoâhe calls him Tuesday   [TGT]  . Whatâs the difference here? MARC SHORT:   [TGT] is being crystal clear on what   [TGT]   wants and   [TGT]   has not wavered in that  Chuck. What Lindsey Graham and Senator Durbin offered to the president was to say  âHere  weâve narrowed it down to these four areas youâve asked us to.â When they came over to the White House and presented them we found them to be woefully insufficient inside those four areas. But nonetheless we had narrowed down the broader debate into a smaller one. We feel like we are making progress on the overall discussion. We think we will get to a solution. What befuddles is to say weâre going to not pay millions of our troops serving around the world. And weâre not going to pay our border agents until  until whatâwe donât know what it is theyâre asking for. Theyâve said  âGive us a shorter CR.â Tonight the Senate Republicans vote  instead of a four-week CR on a three-week CR. And yet Democrats are still are unwilling to give us their vote to keep the government open.
Shortâs statement does not align with populist conservative Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) statement on Saturday that   [TGT] standpoint on immigration has ânot withheld or shifted   [TGT]   positionâ on immigration  where the White House has consistently said they would be open to amnesty for only illegal aliens enrolled in DACA if they were given a slew of pro-American immigration reforms in return.
  [TGT] include full funding for a border wall  an end to the process of âchain migration â and an end to the Diversity Visa Lottery program. According to the White Houseâs longstanding position    [TGT] would be in exchange for legal status for only illegal aliens enrolled in the DACA program.
Likewise  the Visa Lottery  which  [TGT]  has demanded an end to  randomly imports 50 000 foreign nationals every year from a multitude of countries  including those with known terrorism problemsâsuch as Afghanistan  Algeria  Egypt  Iraq  Lebanon  Libya  Nigeria  Saudi Arabia  Somalia  Trinidad and Tobago  Venezuela  Yemen  and Uzbekistan.
A Pulse Opinion Research poll conducted this month found that 60 percent of American likely voters wanted to see the Visa Lottery ended  as  [TGT]  has demanded. The same poll also found that nearly 60 percent of likely voters want to see chain migration ended as part of any immigration deal.
Despite now being a part of the Trump administration  Short has a long history opposing the president and his agenda  as well as working alongside the Koch brothers  two pro-mass immigration billionaires who are major donors to the Republican establishment  as the director of the group Freedom Partners.
In May 2016  during the height of the Republican presidential primary  where   [TGT] was taking the country by storm on  his  populist-nationalist âAmerica Firstâ agenda  Short was heading an effort to derail the then-front-runner.
At the time  National Review exclusively reported that Short was leading an effort inside the Koch brothersâ organizations to take down   [TGT] and  his  agenda  partly by supporting Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)  who infamously helped author the Gang of Eight amnesty bill that would have given the 12 to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. a pathway to citizenship:
On a frigid Tuesday in February  a team of top political operatives from the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce  the umbrella group that controls political activities for the sprawling donor network led by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch  arrived in Kansas for a meeting that they hoped would turn the tide of the presidential campaign. Theyâd set aside $150 million to spend on paid media alone  to be spread across campaigns at the federal  state  and local levels. Yet they had not been authorized to spend a dime on the White House race. Marc Short  then president of Freedom Partners  wanted to change that. He led a faction inside the Koch network that had become convinced of the need to neutralize   [TGT] before  his  momentum made  him  unstoppable. Fresh off  Trumpâs  landslide victory in New Hampshire one week earlier  and staring down another likely  Trump  win in South Carolina that Saturday  Short and  his  lieutenants had come to Wichita to present Charles Koch with a detailed  eight-figure blueprint for derailing the Republican front-runner on Super Tuesday  when eleven states would vote. They hoped to get the green light to hammer   [TGT] with ads in the states where   [TGT]   was most vulnerable.
Just a week after  Shortâs  efforts to lead a full-fledged Koch-funded operation against   [TGT]      [TGT]   signed onto the Rubio campaign.
After Short left the Kochâs Freedom Partners    [TGT]   praised the open borders  billionaire donors  saying  âCharles and David have built an amazing network of donors and activists  and their investments in future generations will pay huge dividends.â
Marc Short  who's running legislative affairs in #Trump WH  previously led ' [TGT]  mvmt inside Koch orgsâ¦ https://t.co/bX4LYR7i9k â John Binder ð½ (@JxhnBinder) September 19  2017