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Originally Posted by Route_2
Trump (after immigration hardliners ambush the Durbin-Graham meeting) renegs on the outline of the deal he agreed to last week and it's the Dems that won't compromise?  |
Pretty much this. Stephen Miller, Perdue, and Cotton tanked a bipartisan deal that would have avoided this.
Going further back, the President had at multiple times sided with Dems on a clean DACA fix before hardliners in his party sunk it. If the President is on board, moderates are on board, Dems are on board; and then hard-line conservatives blow it up - how is that on Dems?
This could have been avoided in the first place had Trump not EO'd DACA away. And it could have been avoided again had congress done anything to address it.
The impasse of CHIP is even worse, IMO. The GOP is using children's health care funding as a political bargaining chip. That's gross, seeing as how at no time prior to this was the funding ever in question. And Trump can't figure out whether he wants a fix in this stop-gap, or not and instead fixed in a longer term bill. But while he figures it out, there's no funding.
The idea that the Dems are to blame when the GOP controls the federal government at all branches, and their president and hardliners are killing deals, is silly to me.