Legislation has next to no chance of passing but Democrats hope to show Republicans are not serious about solving border issue
Senate Democrats on Thursday will force a second vote on a bipartisan border security bill that Republicans blocked earlier this year at Donald Trump’s behest.
The legislation has next to no chance of passing the chamber, but Democrats hope the attempt will strengthen their argument that Republicans are not serious about addressing the situation at the US border with Mexico, an issue that polls show is a top concern among voters – and one of Joe Biden’s biggest political liabilities.
“Our bipartisan border bill represented a real chance – in fact, the best chance in decades – to act on border security, to make a law and not just to make a political point,” Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday.
Not fucking good, the bill is hot garbage and the fact that so many Senate Democrats and Biden support it is an embarrassment.
It’s a bill criminalizing a non-problem that creates a worse issue than what it “solves”. We don’t need or benefit from a more militaristic boarder and xenophobic/racist rhetoric about people crossing.
This garbage kills people and promotes human trafficking. The bill Democrats should be supporting is loosening the boarder and opening pathways to citizenship. We don’t need more detention centers to separate children from their families.
This bill is the same as if the Democrats put up an anti abortion bill just to show that the Republicans don’t care about stopping abortions. Democrats implementing Republican’s fascist policies is not what we need. Not even as a “gotcha”.
Seriously, nothing is gained by this.
Yep exactly. And what happens if Republicans win Congress later, put up the same bill and democrats vote against it? Now suddenly they’re the ones accused of playing games instead of ‘trying to solve the border issue’.
There’s also so many issues that are way more popular that the Democrats are flubbing on by focusing on the fucking border of all things.
Abortion, climate change, cost of living, housing costs, medical costs, ect. It’s a limitless field of popular problems that need fixing and instead of focusing on any of them, the hill they are dying on is funding and arming ICE? In the wake of calls for police reform, they want to empower some of the worst most fascist cops in the US?
These old dog Democrats are the dumbest most of of touch politicians out there.