President Donald Trump addresses the 37th Annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on May 15. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Trump to huddle with House Republicans on immigration

President Donald Trump will huddle with House Republicans in a rare Tuesday evening conference meeting on immigration, seeking to clarify his support for a newly released GOP bill shielding Dreamers from deportation.

The conference will start at 5:30 p.m. and comes just a few days before House Republicans are slated to vote on a pair of immigration bills dealing with the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Trump upended the plans of GOP leadership and White House officials Friday when he suggested he didn’t support a bill they’d been crafting together with conservatives and moderates.


The White House later clarified the administration’s support, saying the president was instead criticizing a Democratic bill — not the Republican proposal. Still, many conservatives wary of backing the legislation want to hear from Trump personally. They believe they will need his cover should they vote on legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants who came here as children.