But Congress immediately labeled the proposal a non-starter.
Predictably, Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, wasted no time in calling Trump's latest proposal a "non-starter". The question now is how long the President, through clenched teeth, will pretend he made the gesture in good faith.
The banks are pressing for immunity from a raft of alleged civil violations and have called the latest proposal a "non-starter".
The problem is that the proposal is an non-starter.
Rob Marcus, the chief executive of TWC, was quick to respond: "Charter's latest proposal is a non-starter.
Heaton-Harris said the proposal was a non-starter – "because there aren't enough referees as it is".
Billy Hunter, the executive director of the players association, quickly dismissed that proposal as a "non-starter" and, in response to Stern's latest remarks, called the N.B.A.'s position "regretful".
The still-sputtering economy made that proposal a political non-starter, and the president rarely, if ever, spoke of raising the minimum wage during his first term.
In his statment responding to the Charter offer, Marcus said, the proposal was a "non-starter" that substantially under values Time Warner Cable.
But Assange's lawyer Barry Pollack, who has long maintained his client will not accept any deal that risks his extradition to the United States, said the proposal was a non-starter.
"This proposal is a non-starter for anyone committed to real reform of Chicago's broken system of policing," Karen Sheley, director of the ACLU of Illinois Police Practices Project, said in a statement.
