Democrats Can't Compromise as Trump and the GOP Take Political Hostages - Joy-Ann Reid

Imagine a world in which Democrats simply said no, and vowed to keep saying no until all of their demands are met.

JOY-ANN REID
01.19.18 8:28 PM ET

Welcome to Donald Trump’s America, where Republicans enablers in Congress codify the racism pushed out of the White House in a modern-day Sophie’s choice. They are demanding that Democrats decide which hostage gets saved: 800,000 young people subject to the DREAM Act, or 9 million kids whose health insurance dies when CHIP funding expires in March.

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To be clear, both groups were harmed by Republicans in the first place.

Donald Trump didn’t have to rescind DACA, which was a presidential directive of his predecessor, President Barack Obama. But he did.

Republicans could codify DACA into law at any time. Their leadership alone has the power to bring these bills, plus a comprehensive immigration bill that would also address renewing Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and El Salvadorans and a renewal of the visa lottery program to the floor. The compromise crafted by Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin would pass easily if a vote on it was allowed. McConnell’s feint, pretending Republicans first must divine what the man-child of Mar-a-Lago really, really wants is nonsense.

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