Inside the Trump-Schumer marriage of convenience

What Schumer is thinking:

Senate and House Democrats are now going to focus on laying the groundwork for all the things that we need to work in a bipartisan way in the weeks and months ahead.

We need protections for Dreamers. We need to stabilize the health-care markets. And we need to come up with a budget deal and fund the government, while continuing to block the wall.

I’ve built a lot of goodwill with my party’s left, so they trust my instincts. My office holds weekly calls with coalitions of progressive groups — and I gave personal advice to them during the health-care fight, on questions like which offices their phone banks should focus on. They were worried I’d be a centrist dealmaker. But I’m going to double down on staying true to the base.