Posted on 02/15/2018 3:51:19 PM PST by Hojczyk
60 Democrats and business-first establishment Republican Senators blocked President Donald Trump’s populist immigration reform agenda, pushing the hot-button topic towards the November election.
Democratic leader Chuck Schumer used his brief speech before the vote to blame President Donald Trump for the Democrats’ refusal to accept a reform-for-amnesty deal, saying:
President Trump created this problem by terminating the DACA program last August. Since then, President Trump has stood in the way over every single proposal that could become law … President Trump has failed his test of leadership spectacularly.
The Trump-backed bill, led by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, lost by 39 to 60, showcasing the political clout of the tacit alliance between pro-immigration progressive Democrats and roughly 12 business-first Republicans, plus at least one anti-amnesty Republican. Many business groups had pressured the GOP Senators to vote against the reforms, largely because Trump promised to cut future legal immigration levels.
The defeat may block pending Senate negotiations over the appropriation of $1.6 billion for the border-wall spending in 2018. The funding decision is slated for completion in late March.
The defeat also invites Trump to make immigration reform a central issue in the November election. White House officials have pushed that strategy in the last few days, noting that polls show that most Americans want immigration rules to favor Americans and their paychecks — instead of cheap-labor companies or immigrants.
The vote showed that several red-state Democrats facing the voters this November joined with the business-first Republicans to maintain wage-cutting immigration, and to preserve the unpopular visa-lottery and chain-migration programs.
Throughout the four-vote series of amendments, few Democrats crossed the line to vote for Trump’s pro-American proposals, while several Republicans backed the cheap-labor amnesty bills.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Primary those RINOs
They are traitors
The republicans can soon kiss their congressional majority’s good bye.
Perhaps not. It looks like President Trump’s strategy is a big success. The democrats look like the treasonous morons they are, support for the republican party as a whole is up, and Amnesty has not been passed. That’s a big win overall. I’ll wait for actual adverse consequences before I give up on what is our final chance at legitimate governance from FedGov.
Maybe I missed it, but I did not see a simple column of GOPe, ProAmnesty, RINOS.
So, this is what I excerpted. Corrections and amplifications invited.
So, we have our work cut out for us. Here is the Draft List of...
Pro Amnesty, Open Borders RINOs to PRIMARY OUT!
Collins
Flake
Murkowski
Sasse
Thune
Barrasso
Enzi
Lee
Moran
Daines
Kennedy
Gardner
Graham
McCain
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We are never going to get the right kind of immigration reform out of THIS Senate.
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There’s never BEEN a need for ‘immigration reform’.
The only NEED is to *ENFORCE THE EXISTING F* LAW*
And, unfortunately, Mr. Pres. has fallen quite short on that front.
As for the traitors, there will be the usual knee-pad brigade soon to swarm the posts w/ their typical ‘lesser-of-2’ ‘feet-2-fire’ song. Again, unfort., I believe the (R) electorate too sheeple but to pull those same levers.
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The republicans can soon kiss their congressional majority’s good bye.
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They sure weren’t running Congress like they wanted the job anyway...(especially not keeping McScrotum and Eddie Munster at the helm).
Amazingly, your list doesn’t include Rubio. It may be that he actually got the message.
And soon to be Romney.
The President can present bills to congress for their approval.
Worth repeating.
Trump should remind them he offered a compromise bill and the Dems turned it down flat. He was willing to give in negotiations but Democrats refused. He needs to keep hammering that.
Right. But Congress has no obligation to even read those bills, let alone vote on them.
“””roughly 12 business-first Republicans”””
aka, repubs paid off with campaign donations from businesses that use mexican laborers.
Murkowski doesn’t make much sense though. How many mexicans are picking fruit and veggies in Alaska?
Guess she’s just a lib/leftist/globalist. A bunch of liberals must have moved to Alaska in past years for her to get elected.
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