Legislation has next to no chance of passing but Democrats hope to show Republicans are not serious about solving border issue

Senate Democrats on Thursday will force a second vote on a bipartisan border security bill that Republicans blocked earlier this year at Donald Trump’s behest.

The legislation has next to no chance of passing the chamber, but Democrats hope the attempt will strengthen their argument that Republicans are not serious about addressing the situation at the US border with Mexico, an issue that polls show is a top concern among voters – and one of Joe Biden’s biggest political liabilities.

“Our bipartisan border bill represented a real chance – in fact, the best chance in decades – to act on border security, to make a law and not just to make a political point,” Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday.

  • @jonne
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    324 days ago

    Yep exactly. And what happens if Republicans win Congress later, put up the same bill and democrats vote against it? Now suddenly they’re the ones accused of playing games instead of ‘trying to solve the border issue’.

    • @cogman@lemmy.world
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      524 days ago

      There’s also so many issues that are way more popular that the Democrats are flubbing on by focusing on the fucking border of all things.

      Abortion, climate change, cost of living, housing costs, medical costs, ect. It’s a limitless field of popular problems that need fixing and instead of focusing on any of them, the hill they are dying on is funding and arming ICE? In the wake of calls for police reform, they want to empower some of the worst most fascist cops in the US?

      These old dog Democrats are the dumbest most of of touch politicians out there.