Posted on 06/29/2019 7:25:58 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Full title: ‘Schumer Destroyed All Our Leverage’: WaPo Report Reveals Infighting Between House And Senate Democrats On Border Bill
See also (But WaPo paywall if you have already looked at WaPo this month)‘A betrayal’: Inside the bitter rift between Pelosi and Schumer over border bill
Democrats in the House and Senate are at odds with one another over the passage of a $4.5 billion emergency border funding bill backed by Senate Republicans, a Friday report from The Washington Post revealed.
The fact that Senate Democrats went along with the bill “kneecapped the House and marked the most embarrassing defeat for Pelosi in the six months since Democrats took over the chamber,” the report read.
“Schumer destroyed all our leverage on Wednesday by not being able to hold his people,” a senior House Democratic aide told the Post. Meanwhile, an anonymous aide on the Senate side said, “They’re blaming everyone but themselves.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
“If existing laws were followed, and if the welfare spigot was turned off they would leave on their own.”
This is exactly what the President should publicly request be done by the Congress in the form of a law or by E.O..
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing wax--Of cabbages and kings--And why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings".
"The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll from Through the Looking-Glass.
A law to force obeying existing laws? That’s one of the things the Bush amnesty bill had. What we need is better people.
Funny, but not what I meant. The law would be to forbid financial, medical or any other form of assistance to illegals.
Only exception would be a ride to the border.
Yes, that would be good. I don’t think Dems in the House would vote for it though. And I’m not sure about Rs in the senate either.
Well of course they wouldn’t, it’s a law which will actually fix a problem and do it almost immediately.
Agree, again, we need better people.
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