“Very strong improvement and strengthening of background checks will be fully backed by White House. “He hasn’t backed away from these things at all,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during a contentious back-and-forth with reporters Monday. Cox also said the background check legislation being supported by the White House would go too far, these people said. He later told others in the White House that he wanted to support only legislation that could pass. “I don’t think there’s a lot of support for that,” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a reliable ally of the White House, said Monday.

Source: National Post March 13, 2018 05:02 UTC