If Trump wins the shutdown fight, can he prevail on immigration too?

President Trump is on the cusp of winning his second straight fight with the Democrats over funding the federal government and avoiding a partial shutdown.

Trump characteristically stepped on his own message by unguardedly threateningsuch a shutdown the day before a long-term spending deal was reached. Despite the bluster, the president has usually made the compromises necessary to keep the government open. And the administration has long championed decoupling spending and immigration, as this bipartisan, bicameral agreement largely does.

Republicans usually don’t win shutdown fights. But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., capitulated last time around because Trump-state Democrats blinked. This appears to have occurred a second time, to the consternation of liberals looking to deal the president a body blow.

Can Trump now win on immigration too? Some Democrats already fear they are losing leverage against the White House. Trump terminated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program last year and gave Congress until March 5 to come up with a legislative fix. He is now demanding a series of border security measures and new immigration restrictions in exchange for legal status for illegal immigrants brought into the U.S. as minors who would have been eligible for DACA.

“I just can’t explain to the Dreamers or my colleagues why we should be second-class members of Congress in this House without a commitment from the speaker that Mitch McConnell gave to the senators — that there would be a vote on the floor to let Congress work its will,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said during her “filibuster” Wednesday.