Story highlights The meeting also discussed the diversity visa lottery

"The people in that lottery are not that country's finest," Trump said

Washington (CNN) Republican senators ruled out any plan to tie immigration policy to the year-end spending bill after a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House Thursday.

That could complicate efforts to pass a permanent solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy that the President is ending, after Democrats have signaled they could cause trouble on government funding if no progress is made by the time it runs out in December.

"We definitely ruled out putting any kind of DACA package on the omnibus bill. Period -- end of story," Arkansas GOP Sen. Tom Cotton told reporters afterward in the Capitol.

"This is not going to be part of the year-end omnibus or CR and it's (going to be) coupled with some other border security and interior enforcement," Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn added.

Also at the White House meeting were Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and immigration bill authors Sens. Tom Cotton, David Perdue, James Lankford, Thom Tillis and Lindsey Graham, who is leading negotiations with Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin.

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