Trump is free to use the sotu speech to reach out and inform everyone about the need at the border, what he is asking for to help and what the Democrats are doing to sabotage his efforts.
Dont worry the Democrats will be given an opportunity to respond.
As for the offers to fund the wall, I am skeptical that they are real. Pelosi has already pledged that she will not allow trump to have any money for a wall. I dont what source you're using but you may want to double check it.
Let's not rewrite history trump has already stated that is agreeable to amnesty for DACA in exchange for them giving him his full asking price and the Democrats rejected his offer along with many Republicans who adamantly oppose amnesty.
Now here they sit stalemated because the house can only write the Bill's but they cant sign them into law. For that they will need to kiss his ring and pay his tribute.
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POTUS only does the State of the Union address with the invitation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. He can't just decide he's coming to the House to speak, he has to be invited. And, he's not.
Skeptical that 2 bills were drafted and got support of republicans and democrats both to move forward to the Senate? Why would you be skeptical when it was a REAL THING?
Again, you're wrong about DACA. Democrats took a deal to Trump just last February, less than a year ago -
$25 billion over 10 years in border security done the right way - and the president blew up the deal
Trump backed a Republican bill that would have appropriated $25 billion for border security. The legislation honored four conditions the president set for continuing DACA:
Provide money to build the wall;
Establish a path to citizenship for DACA children, or "dreamers;"
End the visa lottery program that promotes ethnic diversity of immigrants, and
Severely limit family-based immigration - what Trump calls "chain immigration."
Ending the diversity visa lottery and restricting family-based immigration - which the Democrats call "family reunification - were anathema to Democrats. Without bipartisan support, the bill couldn’t reach the 60 votes needed to end debate on it and to advance to a pass-or-fail roll call.
So Democrats and a handful Republicans - on Feb. 14, 2018 - introduced a substitute bill that they hoped would muster enough bipartisan backing to pass the 60-vote cloture rule. The measure called for $25 billion in border spending over 10 years for wall construction and a host of other security measures. The bill, however, did not address Trump’s demands to end the lottery and narrow family-based immigration.
On Feb. 15, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a statement threatening Trump would veto the substitute bill. Trump, in tweets, called the bill "a total catastrophe," that would create "mass amnesty for over 10 million illegal aliens, including criminals."
The Washington Post and The New York Times reported that Trump also objected that the bill would allocate the $25 billion over 10 years, instead of all at once.
Later that day, the bill failed. Although a bipartisan group of 54 senators voted for cloture - a majority - they came short of the 60 votes needed to advance. Minutes later, the Republican bill backed by Trump also died.
Congress failed to reach the March 5 deadline to protect DACA, but the phase-out of the program has put on hold by several courts.
