GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House mobilized an all-out Capitol Hill lobbying blitz Wednesday [6-20-18] afternoon in the hope of salvaging an immigration bill in the House that would give Trump his long-awaited border wall as well as a solution for family separations at the border. After a week of back and forth, unclear signals, confusion and a visit from President Donald Trump to Capitol Hill, the White House launched its most aggressive effort since health care to unite Republicans and advance the House’s immigration compromise bill along despite its uncertain path to the passage. The scramble for votes came as Trump announced he would ‘sign something’ to tackle family separations, a move that caught Hill leaders off guard and injected uncertainty into whether the move could endanger the House’s compromise bill as leaders rushed to get to 218 votes…As part of the effort to sell the compromise bill, Majority Whip Steve Scalise gave the White House a list of people the President personally needed to convince. And later that afternoon, nearly two dozen members boarded white vans — alongside GOP leaders — to go straight to the White House to meet with Trump.”
-Lauren Fox, “Ahead of House vote, Trump lobbying effort aims to unite divided Republicans on immigration,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 20, 2018 2:54 pm