The bipartisan border deal appears on the verge of combustion, and President Joe Biden on Tuesday placed the blame for that squarely on Donald Trump.
“All indications are this bill won’t even move forward to the Senate floor. Why? A simple reason: Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump thinks it’s bad for him politically,” Biden said in remarks from the State Dining Room.
“He’d rather weaponize this issue than actually solve it. So for the last 24 hours, he’s done nothing, I’m told, but reach out to Republicans in the House and the Senate and threaten them and try to intimidate them to vote against this proposal,” the president said. “And looks like they’re caving.”
We all would. This border deal was a gift to Republicans. It contains no actual long-term reform that will improve the situations. It’s a bad deal I’m happy enough to see fail, though it is very unfortunate that the Ukraine aid is getting trashed with it – because the future where Russia is continued to allowed to conquer westward is a dark one indeed.
And they still rejected it. The GOP were offered a no-brainer gift and they turned it down. Because scoring political points mattered more to them than getting what they want.
For most on the left, this story is kind of a wash. No Israel or bad border policy, but also no Ukraine. But it is a great allegory for how broken conservative politics are. There’s increasingly no point negotiating them because nothing will satisfy their hunger other than authoritarian rule.
Yeah, it’s super frustrating that we can’t get Ukraine the aide they need, because yes, screw Russia and every other country that thinks they can just conquer and plunder like it’s the 19th century or earlier again
110% agreed, now somebody find a way to get this message across to the heartless bastards running the Democratic party right now who think it’s ok to play chicken with migrants and asylum seekers to score some cheap political points