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Article snippet: House Minority Leader Trump as Democratic leaders discussed making a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The Washington Post reports that Pelosi, who was the only woman in attendance at the meeting between Trump, Cabinet officials and Democratic leaders on Wednesday, was trying to make a point when the men at the table began talking over her and over each other about how Trump would benefit from striking a deal with the Democrats. “Do the women get to talk around here?” Pelosi asked, two sources familiar with the exchange told the Post, after which the room reportedly fell silent. Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff Drew Hammill shared that excerpt from the Post article on his Twitter on Thursday night. Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) had dinner with Trump Wednesday in an attempt to reach a deal to turn the DACA protections into law. After the dinner, the Democratic leaders released a statement saying they had agreed to work towards a deal to protect DACA recipients. “We had a very productive meeting at the White House with the president,” Schumer and Pelosi said in a statement. “We agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that’s acceptable to both sides.” But the White House disputed some details of the proposed deal. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said excluding the border wall “was certainly not agreed ... Link to the full article to read more