State Senate sends right message on protecting Dreamers

If the negotiations appear to be going nowhere, the federal government could shut down once again. A bill of that type, however, nearly certainly will not get an up-or-down vote in both houses.

President Trump was quick to declare victory in his usual way. The final vote was 81-18.

The government was shut down for about three days just a week or so ago when Democrats held firm on not passing a budget unless there were stipulations about DACA in it. Republicans did not want to do that without tougher border security measures and funding as well. Schumer announced on Monday that most Democrats had agreed to support a procedural measure to end the funding impasse, which closed government operations over the weekend, in exchange for Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s promise of a vote to extend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, by February 8.

Either Trump wants to protect dreamers or he doesn’t.

The ink was still wet on his one-page proposal when Dick Durbin raced to the cameras in a high dudgeon to flatly reject the president’s offer, accusing the president of holding DREAMers “hostage”. Trump’s re-election campaign has already run a tough ad against Democrats regarding immigration, so, like it or not, the 2020 presidential campaign is upon us as well. “There’s not enough votes on a motion to proceed to it until Democrats are willing to say we can do that”, Short said, referring to Senate rules created to encourage consensus that require 60 votes to cut off debate.

DACA has now been obscured by political turmoil as it has been attached to government funding legislation.

The Democratic leader said McConnell has assured him the immigration debate would be “fair and neutral” to both parties. We’ll unpack it, and consider its prospects in Congress. And at the same time, right-wing Republicans were angered.

Gillibrand’s refusal to fund the government was joined by leaders of the Democrats’ smoldering radical left, including Sen.

“There are so many issues that are not being addressed by this Congress, and what Democrats were trying to do was basically to force the Republicans to do their job”.

Speaking on “Fox News Sunday“, White House legislative affairs director Marc Short rallied support for Trump’s immigration plan, which was released Thursday.

CNBC reported, “Democrats don’t control either chamber of Congress”. It was also the commitment from his Republican colleagues.

“They have to pass either another continuing resolution, which is a short-term budget deal, or pass a longer-term budget deal”, Epstein said. So if there is no DACA fix because a bill of this type never gets a vote, the blame falls squarely on Ryan.

“I want to be clear: DREAMers are Americans”, said Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., whose guest came to the US from El Salvador at the age of 15 and now works as a technology specialist at Apple.

House GOP leaders are also making good on their promise to conservatives and defense hawks to vote on a full-year defense appropriations bill – a bill they agreed to schedule on the floor for a second time in order to get support for the stopgap funding bill the avoid a shutdown. One is an extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program. His made-for-TV shutdown neither speeds up nor changes our ongoing Republican efforts.

A top White House aide said Monday that the administration isn’t open to narrowing down an immigration deal – an idea being floated by a key group of bipartisan senators.

Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican who is helping lead a bipartisan coalition in the Senate to develop an immigration bill, said the focus of the current bill should be narrow.

In another interview past year, he said dreamers “shouldn’t be very anxious”, because he has a “big heart” that dictates, “We’re going to take care of everybody”. Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine.

Trump has maintained the support of his base but has yet to win over Democrats or independent voters, polls show. And Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) tweeted that “its goal is to dehumanize immigrants”.