Their idea was to tie approval of military assistance to Ukraine to tough border security demands that Democrats would never accept, allowing Republicans to block the money for Kyiv that many of them oppose while simultaneously enabling them to pound Democrats for refusing to halt a surge of migrants at the border. It was to be a win-win headed into November’s elections.
But Democrats tripped them up by offering substantial — almost unheard-of — concessions on immigration policy without insisting on much in return. Now it is Republicans who are rapidly abandoning a compromise that gave them much of what they wanted, leaving aid to Ukraine in deep jeopardy, border policy in turmoil and Congress again flailing as multiple crises at home and abroad go without attention because of a legislative stalemate.
Oh look, another article from the NY times accepting the lie that manageable and needed immigration is somehow a crisis surge. I really wish democrats hadn’t decided that xenophobia is bipartisan now.
It’s called diplomacy and it is a requirement of getting anything done in a split Congress.
The NY times isn’t in congress though.
Diplomacy is usually between different nations. When political parties negotiate it’s more commonly called horse-trading, or compromise. But again that’s not the job of a national newspaper.
It’s also quite possible to compromise with someone without parroting their lies.
Here in Boston we’ve got migrants sleeping in the airport, the state transportation building, and now the state owned gym and pool complex across the street from my house. The governor is draining a $600 million rainy day fund plus asking for another $250 million to help manage the inflow of migrants. Meanwhile our housing crisis is only getting worse, and we’ve literally got no place to send these desperate people. I’m pretty far left, but this doesn’t feel manageable to me.
They’re going to get help from the federal government as soon as Democrats have the House. They’ll probably reduce funding for the border that goes to Texas to pay for it.
Republicans are fucking your state to help their election chances. Stop them by voting in Democratic House members to get your money back from Texas and Florida.
Uh, you do realize I’m from Massachusetts, right? Our elections are decided in the democratic primary when we pick which candidates will breeze through the general election and take their house seats. The last time we sent a republican to DC was in 1994.
Hey the better Griffin does in the primary the more of a message may be able to get across to Warren who is wanting term three.
Immigration isn’t always a xenophobia issue. See also, Canada right now. The US situation isn’t currently comparable but there has been a surge so it’s not surprising that people would be investigating that.