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MAGA Republicans will not support it regardless. That is what they doSure about that?
Punchbowl News:
But the bill’s release Sunday night was like pouring gasoline on the fire that is the Senate GOP internal war. Senators and aides publicly and privately questioned whether a majority of the Republican Conference would back it, a key metric. There were even calls for an immediate leadership change from some GOP senators and conservative outside groups.
Top Republicans back proposal: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. James Lankford (Okla.), the lead GOP negotiator, fiercely defended the bill on Sunday after its release. McConnell will brief Senate Republicans on the bill this evening, we’re told. That isn’t likely to mollify conservatives, who are already calling the bill “atrocious” and “a magnet for more illegal immigration.”
During a press call Sunday evening, Lankford said those criticizing the proposal had already come out against it before the text was released, so he didn’t expect them to reverse course.
“If we have a crisis on our southern border, and we do… we should address that and do what we can to be able to solve that problem — not just hope that the problem gets better or hope that an election solves the issue,” Lankford said.
Let’s acknowledge that Lankford and Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), the three chief negotiators on the border security package, defied the odds by even reaching a compromise on an issue as politically sensitive as immigration.
But it’s unclear if there’s a path to 60 votes in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and McConnell are counting on a center-right plus center-left supermajority of the Senate to vote for this measure. There’s no guarantee of enough support there. (Here are statements from Murphy, Lankford, Sinema, the White House and Schumer).
The opposition: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said definitively that the House would not vote on this measure. Speaker Mike Johnson termed the bill “dead on arrival.”
Lankford said in response to these statements that he’s “a little confused… at how it could be ‘worse than expected.’” The Oklahoma Republican added he wants to huddle with the speaker’s team. Of course, Johnson’s statement will undoubtedly cause some on-the-fence GOP senators to vote against the bill.
“We’re at the beginning points of information,” Lankford asserted, dismissing the House GOP criticisms. “There are some people who just read Facebook posts… They made their decision based on the Facebook posts, not the text.”
But hardline Senate GOP conservatives are furious over the proposal, saying it will do nothing to stop the flow of migrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. And after Schumer said Sunday, “I have never worked more closely with Leader McConnell on any piece of legislation as we did on this,” McConnell’s Republican critics pounced.
That prompted Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), a leading detractor of both the bill and McConnell, to quote-tweet us with this response: “The bromance continues…” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said, “That’s the problem.”
Lee later tweeted a call for “new leadership” and described the bill as a “disqualifying betrayal.” McConnell’s opponents clearly want to make a move against him. Whether that actually materializes is an entirely different question.
It’s hard to see how this bill will win over a majority of Senate Republicans at this point, which is what McConnell and others in leadership had sought. There’s already internal GOP discussion over whether McConnell — whom conservatives accuse of using the border provisions as cover for more Ukraine funding — will try to split the two off.
The path forward: Schumer reiterated Sunday night that the first procedural vote will be on Wednesday. This will be a critical test.
We expect several progressives to oppose the plan as well. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) did so on Sunday due to the Israel funding. Hispanic lawmakers and pro-immigration groups such as the ACLU are already taking aim at the changes to immigration policy. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) called it a “new version of Trump-era policies that will cause more chaos at the border.”
On the House side: The House Republican leadership has signaled it will move beyond the Senate’s bipartisan proposal. This week, Johnson plans to put on the floor a bill to send $17.6 billion to Israel without any spending cuts, a reversal of his earlier approach.
its all right here with proof,,
/----/ It's two separate actions, dumbass.“Ballot switching software”?
How did that software manage to change those paper ballots
Moron
/---/ Care to back up your idiotic rants with proof?Bull shit. The laws have been in place for decades. The Neo-GOP demanded strong immigration reform be tied to the foreign military aid package that has bipartisan support. It is a few MAGANUTS in the house who support the pro-Fentanyl, pro illegal immigration, pro Hamas terrorism, pro Putin's aggression, pro Chinese take over of Taiwan, and are rooting for economic collapse of the US.
How any any red blooded American support the MAGANUTS today?
SO they are held in detention until their claims are adjudicated?1.it does not allow 1.5 million a year into the country. It might allow that many to APPLY, but the dramatic changes to asylum criteria means that most will be denied… rather quickly
2.NGOs do not traffic illegals. That was a stupid lie.
3.Yes. It provides funding to help Ukraine fight off the Russian invasion. You say that like it’s bad thing. Quite the opposite.
4. Processing asylum claims quickly means they gent SENT BACK more quickly
Republicans want to continue to use lies about ‘the border’ as a partisan wedge issue and to attack President Biden.Beck is not Cult approved so they will pay no attention to the facts enumerated within.
Covid and a depression were major things then.Around 500,000 illegals in Trump's last year in office. Now we have millions invading our border.
No kidding, you mean the Biden border is not a disaster?Republicans want to continue to use lies about ‘the border’ as a partisan wedge issue and to attack President Biden.
That is the claim.SO they are held in detention until their claims are adjudicated?
your premise is a lie,,Republicans want to continue to use lies about ‘the border’ as a partisan wedge issue and to attack President Biden.
Republicans want to continue to use lies about ‘the border’ as a partisan wedge issue and to attack President Biden.
Why did the illegal invasion start as soon as Biden got into office? The pandemic wasn't over, more died from covid under Biden.Covid and a depression were major things then.
Republicans want to continue to use lies about ‘the border’ as a partisan wedge issue and to attack President Biden.
The economy picked up. Biden changed the EOs back to pre-Trump.Why did the illegal invasion start as soon as Biden got into office? The pandemic wasn't over, more died from covid under Biden.
Seems like something that would be clear in the billThat is the claim.
To tie the bill to support for the Ukraine alone should make it dead on arrival in the House. How dare the President and Democrats make the Ukraine more important than U.S. security and defense? Only the most deplorable RINOs will support this if they even do when it comes up for a final vote.
Senate Negotiators Unveil Bipartisan Legislation To Fix The Border
"If it’s good for the country but bad for Donald Trump, what do you choose?" Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said in urging Republicans to support the legislation.www.huffpost.com
And it is as we have been saying. The most forceful immigration bill in decades.
Will Republicans sign on to this? They claim they want the border “fixed”. Well here is that fix.
I have not read the full details, hence my statement.Seems like something that would be clear in the bill
It's beyond whatever a MAGA republican is.MAGA Republicans will not support it regardless. That is what they do
There is enough Republican support to pass the Senate and the House
Johnson will not allow a vote in the House
Other than resuming construction of the border wall, I cannot see how this bill will accomplish anything that current immigration laws do not.
