Trump urging Republicans to reject border security deal

[Rick345]

Both democrats and republicans have for been months hammering out a deal to improve and increase security on the southern border the bipartisan deal may soon collapse to allow Trump political talking points. Do you really want a present that puts his own political aspirations above the safety and security of the American people?

Quoting several senators, the border deal would draw the support of “probably a majority of Republicans, if they voted their conscience, but there’s more to it than that,” Senator Kevin Cramer, Republican of North Dakota, said after the discussion. Mr. Trump’s “position matters; he’s both a former president and he’s more and more likely the next president.”

Republican proponents of the deal have argued that members of their party must take advantage of the unique circumstances they are in, with a Democratic president and a Democratic-led Senate that have been willing to accept border security measures without demanding significant trade-offs to extend legal status to undocumented immigrants or increase legal pathways to immigration.

Punchbowl News reports that McConnell privately told GOP senators that with Trump winning the GOP nomination, the “politics have changed” on immigration, and a deal might “undermine him.” As Punchbowl notes, McConnell is “acknowledging Trump’s continued stranglehold on the GOP.”

Trump has been telling Republicans to sink the deal so that he can “fix” immigration if elected again. It’s worth remembering that Trump was already president once, and guess what: He released a lot of migrants into the interior, and he couldn’t pass his immigration agenda even with unified GOP control. But that aside, what he really means is this: Republicans must reject any deal that improves the system in ways both sides can accept, because the public might like it, closing off any chance at exploiting the current challenges to push his own agenda.

 

[butters]

despite a fairly tough agreement, handing republicans a lot of what they demand in order to secure funding for Israel and Ukraine and made by working in a strongly bipartisan fashion, Senate republicans/johnson&trump refuse to let it be born.

WASHINGTON — Republican senators made clear Tuesday that they will kill the border security bill their party negotiated with Democrats, marking a stunning turnaround less than 48 hours after it was released by Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and blessed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

McConnell — overruled by his Senate GOP members, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and former President Donald Trump — conceded it has no path to passage.

proving republicans (as a party led by the nose by trump) intend to do shit about the problem they've been holding up as the bigliest (apart from the economy) in their fight against President Biden getting a second term.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co...border-security-bill-declaring-dea-rcna137572

 

[butters]

The Wall Street Journal editorial page this week expressed bewilderment that Republicans appear eager to torpedo a bipartisan immigration deal that is far more conservative than anything they imagined possible just months ago.

The bill, which was hammered out by Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), and Chris Murphy (D-CT), completely forgoes a longtime demand from Democratic lawmakers for a pathway to citizenship to undocumented immigrants who were brought to America as children and who have spent the vast majority of their lives in the United States.

Instead, the bill deals almost entirely with border security and contains multiple policy changes Republicans have been demanding for years.

"Republicans demanded border measures last year as the price for passing military aid for Ukraine, Israel and Pacific allies," the editors wrote. "Democrats resisted at first but later agreed to negotiate and have made concessions that are infuriating the open-borders left. Will Republicans now abandon what they claimed to want?"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...p&cvid=5ec44a76ab654d729cb1464e3e8d052f&ei=65

 

[bijedi]

despite a fairly tough agreement, handing republicans a lot of what they demand in order to secure funding for Israel and Ukraine and made by working in a strongly bipartisan fashion, Senate republicans/johnson&trump refuse to let it be born.


proving republicans (as a party led by the nose by trump) intend to do shit about the problem they've been holding up as the bigliest (apart from the economy) in their fight against President Biden getting a second term.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co...border-security-bill-declaring-dea-rcna137572

They have certainly given their opposition a big weapon to use against them in November. It remains to be seen if the Democrats can effectively leverage the weapon. One thing swing voters hate is when a party plays political games with issues that are important to them. Can the Democrats effectively communicate this to voters? Can the GOP paint it as something other than politics over policy?

 

[MajorRewrite]

The WSJ: “By any honest reckoning, this is the most restrictive migrant legislation in decades.”

It will be amusing to watch right wing propagandists attack the Wall Street Journal and call it a communist rag.

 

[Lazaran]

They have certainly given their opposition a big weapon to use against them in November. It remains to be seen if the Democrats can effectively leverage the weapon. One thing swing voters hate is when a party plays political games with issues that are important to them. Can the Democrats effectively communicate this to voters? Can the GOP paint it as something other than politics over policy?

Considering the Border Patrol Union supports this bipartisan senate bill, I believe it’s already breaking through to the public.

Just like the UAW supporting President Biden and trashing the corrupt orange traitor is breaking through to the public.

And the more convictions, decisions, and details from the corrupt orange traitor’s legal cases that come out, the more the seriousness of the corrupt orange traitor’s criminality is breaking through to the public.

Everybody is getting a reeeeeeaaaaally good look at the political obstruction of the "republicans", and the criminality of the corrupt orange traitor.

*nods*

 

[butters]

Fox News' Steve Doocy confronted House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) on the issue on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning.

"I know a lot of Republicans are against it because Donald Trump is against it," said Doocy. "But here's the problem for you guys. The Border Patrol Union came out and the acting CBP chief came out and said, it's not perfect, but this is the best thing we've seen in decades. So are Republicans gonna say that the Border Patrol Union and the acting CBP chief are wrong?"

"Well, look, they can have their perspective, Steve—" Emmer began.

"It's their jobs, Tom!" said Doocy.

lol

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...p&cvid=e88bcaf7f91e49cfafd426e09370f0e0&ei=65

 

[butters]

mike johnson and the gop making noises they are willing now to pass the Ukraine funding bill without tying it to the border security demands they'd made and which were largely agreed to by the Senate and the house dems in a bipartisan manner.

the fact they're still stalling border security funding in a hope to show how insecure the borders are (and to not credit President Biden with doing the job of maintaining/improving border security because that would make Biden look good) is ALL about trump

The change marks a stark contrast to a December ultimatum from Johnson, who had explicitly communicated to the White House that “supplemental Ukraine funding is dependent upon enactment of transformative change to our nation’s border security laws.” However, with the Senate’s failure to advance related legislation, which sought transformative changes and faced strong opposition due to former President Donald Trump’s influence, this demand has been set aside.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...1&cvid=6650dc983f2c4589a5ef75c4ff09c65f&ei=26

 

[Lazaran]

mike johnson and the gop making noises they are willing now to pass the Ukraine funding bill without tying it to the border security demands they'd made and which were largely agreed to by the Senate and the house dems in a bipartisan manner.

the fact they're still stalling border security funding in a hope to show how insecure the borders are (and to not credit President Biden with doing the job of maintaining/improving border security because that would make Biden look good) is ALL about trump



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...1&cvid=6650dc983f2c4589a5ef75c4ff09c65f&ei=26

And they’re actually still stalling funding for Ukraine.

MAGAt Mike’s latest little teaser about possibly putting funding for Ukraine up for a vote is nothing until it’s something.

The reports I read also indicated that the Ukraine funding will be greatly reduced in MAGAt Mike’s proposal.

I honestly don’t believe MAGAt Mike is serious about aiding Ukraine. (MAGAt Mike takes his marching orders from Putin’s orange puppet, after all.)

 

[jomar]

I hope the Dems go against type and this time pound trump killing the border deal, the repubs acquiescence to it and roe v and draconian state laws killing women as a result.