Legalizing at least 5 million lawbreakers, giving them SSNs, which allows them to compete legally with US workers and depress wages, and providing them with other benefits like EITC will cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
This should be a winning issue for Reps who should be discussing substance and not process. The GOP should state publicly that they are the defenders of the Constitution, American workers, and taxpayers. They should paint the Dems as being more concerned about the "rights" of lawbreakers whose actions are destroying the middle class than they are about the American people.
We are watching a kabuki dance orchestrated by Boehner and McConnell. They are going to cave. They devised this strategy in order to pass the budget when they took over. They postponed any confrontation with the WH, just as they have done in the past. It is simply disgusting.