- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.org
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.org
Republican Sen. James Lankford, who spent months negotiating the border provisions the GOP demanded, said he may vote against his own bill this week.
Senate Republicans on Monday signaled their plan to filibuster bipartisan legislation that paired tougher border policy with more U.S. aid to Ukraine, a stunning reversal less than 24 hours after the legislation had been unveiled.
With ex-president Donald Trump urging them to kill it, and many on the right up in arms about the proposal, top Senate Republicans emerged from a heated closed-door meeting and said they needed more time to review the agreement, suggesting that a scheduled Wednesday vote to advance the bill is all but doomed to fail.
Their bluff was called.
I wonder if anyone will tell the fauxbrained that the cons have no intent on proper governance. I bet if they could have kept SCOTUS from taking away human rights, they would have done that, too. They became the dog that caught the car on that, and they obviously don’t want the same to happen with the border.
Ahh but whose bluff?
Republicans? Democrats?
Democrats are the ones that compromised for what represented the worst border policy possible. What did they gain for this?
Likewise with Republicans.
Clearly, yes, bluffs were called. But both parties come out worse imo.
The gain is not losing anything. It doesn’t matter what the Dems conceded; if the bill doesn’t pass then their concessions are irrelevant.
But it’s worse for the GOP. They got lots of what they demanded, but aren’t going to get those things because they won’t support the bill. So not only do they not get what they want, but talking point of “The GOP denounced a bill for border security hours after supporting it, and after months of complaining about the border. Do they really want to fix it?” is so stupidly simple to understand.
Oh you sweet summer child…