The goal was to change the program.
Mr. Bush agreed to change the program to satisfy the legal objections.
He said he expected to change the program, not to cut it.
"I thought we could change the program," Echenique said in a phone interview Thursday night.
Before his election, Trump said repeatedly that he would not cut or change the program.
Sessions didn't change the program out of some devotion to federalism or limited government.
Legislation to change the program is working its way through Congress, but has yet to clear the Senate.
Because of that decree, the board and elected officials who represent Hispanic neighborhoods have been reluctant to change the program.
The agency also discussed ways to change the program, many of them similar to changes discussed in the Clinton administration.
The president's directive reinforced the need for caution, counterterrorism officials said, but did not significantly change the program.
How do signals received from other cells change the program and coordinate it for multicellular development?
