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Tying military spending to any other issue, he said, is \u201cabsolutely wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But another key lawmaker on defense \u2014 Senate Armed Services Committee member Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. \u2014 said Republicans need to accept a deal on immigration to win defense spending increases. Graham favors a compromise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor a Republican to believe that we will get all of the defense funding that we desperately want and need, and we\u2019ll deal with [immigration] later, how naive can you be?\u201d Graham told an audience at the conservative American Enterprise Institute on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conflicting messages show the difficulties that Republican leaders face in finding a deal on both issues, even with control of both chambers of Congress and the White House. Both Thornberry and Graham are leaders in their respective chambers on defense issues, as well as important supporters for any possible path ahead on budget plans. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many Democrats have insisted there be an agreement on a legislative replacement for the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, for them to vote for a stopgap continuing resolution to fund the federal government beyond the Jan. 19 deadline \u2014 much less a deal to raise statutory budget caps for the defense and nondefense sides of the federal budget for fiscal 2018. (One proposed fix is called the DREAM Act \u2014 and DACA recipients are often referred to as Dreamers.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Graham, a leading defense hawk in the Senate, is also a member of the \u201cGang of Six\u201d lawmakers expected to release a bipartisan proposal that protects DACA recipients and provides funding for security along the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m in the camp of doing something right by the Dreamers and doing something right by the military, and do it now, and do it together,\u201d Graham said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That position is at odds with Senate Republican leadership. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says lawmakers have until March to complete negotiations on immigration. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, tweeted Tuesday that the Gang of Six deal would not get a Senate vote because President Donald Trump will not sign it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., argued along similar lines, invoking military training accidents lawmakers have linked to unstable defense spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen you see a situation when more of our men and women are dying in training accidents than they are in combat, its a serious situation,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cAnd to block funding for our military, with a Friday deadline over unrelated issues, makes no sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Republicans on Tuesday proposed a stopgap continuing resolution to fund the federal government through mid-February. With House GOP votes uncertain, Republican leadership has added sweeteners to attract Democrats: an extension of child health insurance and delays on health care-related taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That continuing resolution still punts on a 2018 federal spending deal and on the immigration debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some pro-defense Republicans have either threatened to vote against a continuing resolution, citing the harm unstable funding does to military readiness, or \u2014 like Thornberry \u2014 played coy about how they will vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking Wednesday, Graham said an immigration deal seemed close on Jan. 9, when Trump seemed supportive during at a bipartisan meeting at the White House. But on Thursday, Trump drew immigration hardliners into the talks and has been accused of using derogatory language to describe immigrant countries, charging the negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Graham blames White House staff for giving Trump bad advice.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has since accused Democrats of wanting to create a crisis for political benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Democrats want to shut down the Government over Amnesty for all and Border Security,\u201d Trump tweeted Tuesday. \u201cThe biggest loser will be our rapidly rebuilding Military, at a time we need it more than ever. We need a merit based system of immigration, and we need it now! No more dangerous Lottery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thornberry took a softer but similar line Tuesday, calling out the \u201cpolitical games on the backs of men and women risking their lives for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think today there could be an agreement reached on a cap deal, and frankly I think it\u2019s not that difficult to get a DACA deal,\u201d Thornberry said. \u201cThe question is: Do they want to? 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