Trump and Garcetti, enemies in public, are quietly working out a deal on homelessness
WASHINGTON - Senior Trump administration officials have made quiet but significant progress toward a potential deal with Los Angeles officials that would provide federal funds and land to help shelter the city's and county's growing homeless population.
The movement follows a series of phone calls between Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger.
The positive tone, much of it behind the scenes, comes as a sharp contrast to Trump's bellicose anti-California rhetoric at political rallies and on Twitter. At times, the president has appeared to threaten to invoke sweeping emergency powers to
