GOP immigration push set to flop in embarrassment for Trump
The president has shown he can scare Hill Republicans but not get them to vote the way he wants.
By RACHAEL BADE, HEATHER CAYGLE and JOHN BRESNAHAN 06/21/2018 09:26 AM EDT
House Republicans spent weeks crafting a “compromise” immigration bill slated to hit the House floor Thursday — one that tracks with President Donald Trump’s call to beef up border security and shield Dreamers from deportation. But the only question going into the big vote is how badly it fails.
After laboring to strike a deal between moderate Republicans from swing districts and immigration hawks wary of being accused of supporting “amnesty,” GOP leaders say they still don’t have the votes.
It’s a damaging blow to an already weakened lame-duck speaker, Paul Ryan. His team has downplayed the possibility of passing anything, and the Wisconsin Republican has long maintained that any solution for Dreamers would likely have to be bipartisan.
Some Republicans are predicting that a rival bill authored by immigration hard-liners could garner as many votes as the compromise package, a result that would embarrass leaders who‘ve dismissed the proposal.
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