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GOP immigration bill goes down in flames in rebuff to Trump
GOP immigration bill goes down in flames in rebuff to Trump
The bill failed by a wide margin despite the president’s last-minute tweet urging passage.
By RACHAEL BADE and LOUIS NELSON
06/27/2018 09:25 AM EDT
Updated 06/27/2018 02:01 PM EDT
The House delivered a massive defeat to a Republican immigration bill Wednesday, despite President Donald Trump’s last-minute push for the legislation and weeks of negotiation between GOP lawmakers.
The 121-301 vote came amid opposition from all Democrats and dozens of Republicans, who feared backing a bill that could be tagged as “amnesty” by the right — even though it closely aligned with Trump’s immigration proposal and received an all-caps Twitter endorsement from the president earlier in the day.
“HOUSE REPUBLICANS SHOULD PASS THE STRONG BUT FAIR IMMIGRATION BILL, KNOWN AS GOODLATTE II, IN THEIR AFTERNOON VOTE TODAY, EVEN THOUGH THE DEMS WON’T LET IT PASS IN THE SENATE,” Trump tweeted. “PASSAGE WILL SHOW THAT WE WANT STRONG BORDERS & SECURITY WHILE THE DEMS WANT OPEN BORDERS = CRIME. WIN!”
House Republicans said before the vote that it was too little, too late.
If Trump really wanted this bill to pass, senior GOP sources said, he should have tweeted his endorsement earlier instead of repeatedly sending mixed signals to the party. Just last week, he said Republicans were “wasting their time” trying to pass legislation.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/trump-house-republicans-immigration-bill-678816
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