Democrats will always find the political capital to enact right wing solutions, even when the entirety of Republicans block them. This country is beyond fucked, hes gonna make the border crueler to immigrants before he even tries to resolve the dispute between Texas and the federal government.
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Seriously, why bother with executive action? I thought the point was to use that as a bargaining chip for getting Ukraine funding. Now that it's dead because Republicans are now opposing their own bill, why bother?
The only border crisis is the one Abbott is creating between Texas and the United States.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The unilateral measures under consideration might upset some progressives in Congress, the officials said, but they noted that Democratic mayors who have asked for more help from the federal government to handle the influx of migrants in their cities would be pleased.
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan border bill that they had negotiated with Democrats and the Biden administration over the preceding months.
“Today, Congressional Republicans chose to put partisan politics ahead of our national security and voted against what border agents have said they need.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden argued the bipartisan bill would have “made important fixes to our broken immigration system,” calling it “the toughest, fairest law” on the border ever proposed.
He plans to cite the Republican turnabout on the bipartisan border legislation as proof that for political reasons the GOP does not really want to solve the problem.
But he is still vulnerable on the issue, trailing his likely 2024 opponent, former President Donald Trump, by more than 30 points on securing the border and controlling immigration, according to a new NBC News poll released this week.
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