Ryan had a lot of votes already. Paul Ryan could have booted King off the immigration committee and Trey Gomez(South Carolina), Raul LaRazaPoodle(Idaho) & Ted Pinata Poe(Texas 2nd CD) would be holding committees asking Dreamers want their preferred kind of amnesty is.
I think King will eventually support Trump later on. I think this is because he knows he can hurt Rubio on amnesty at this point in time. Trump is already out there saying the right things.
King is against Rubio. Rubio and Cruz are fighting over immigration. Cruz has to come out and say he supports 90% of King’s plan. Then King’s plan goes mainstream and he is in a proxy argument with Rubiocare.
For all the trashing of Kim Jong Rubio, Steve King and Rubio haven’t been able to get close enough to debate.
“...Cruz, meanwhile, has discussed sponsoring a Senate version of the Resettlement Accountability National Security Act, which would suspend the refugee resettlement program until the Government Accountability Office conducts a review, according to the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas).
Republicans are seeking to drive a wedge between Obama and congressional Democrats ahead of an election year when national security is expected to be a top concern of voters. So far, Democratic leaders have kept their ranks mostly unified, but defectors are already emerging.
Centrist Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) signed a letter sponsored by two vulnerable Republican incumbents, Sens. Mark Kirk (Ill.) and Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), urging that no refugee from the Syrian crisis be admitted to the country “unless the U.S. government can guarantee, with 100 percent assurance, that they are not members, supporters, or sympathizers of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.”
Legislation to restrict Obama’s refugee program could set up a tough vote for some Democrats, who may be forced to choose between backing their president and responding to public fears about a potential terrorist attack in the United States.
The brewing fight could become an obstacle to finishing a year-end government funding bill by Dec. 11. Republicans want to include language in the omnibus measure that would halt federal funding for resettlement.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) earlier this month wrote a letter to Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) - the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee - and ranking Democrat Barbara Mikulski (Md.), threatening to block funding for refugees until the administration crafts a comprehensive national security plan.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, said Congress should cancel what he called the “blank check” for refugee resettlement in the omnibus.
“Under current admissions policies, we can be expected to resettle another nearly 700,000 migrants from Muslim countries over the next five years,” Sessions wrote....”
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/260337-pressure-builds-to-block-refugees