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#POTUS #Biden to meet w/ #Congress leaders over #border & #NationalSecurity funding
(But reality check: #MikeJohnson said he doesn’t want to pass #BorderLegislation because he doesn’t want the Biden admin to be able to take credit for it & because he wants to keep the issue alive for the 2024 #election.)
#immigration #HouseRepublicans #Republicans #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #TheDysfunctionIsThePoint #PublicDisservice
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/biden-to-meet-with-congressional-leaders-over-border-and-national-security-funding-202058821879
From David Dayen / #AmericanProspect prospect.org:
@ddayen
“The reason is that it’s an #election year, & #Republicans have once again decided that their path to victory goes right through the U.S.-Mexico #border. Inflation & the economy were effective complaints in 2023, but they are starting to recede. Transgender rights have been a disastrously unproductive wedge issue for Republicans. But #immigration is the one area where they’ve put Joe #Biden on the back foot….”
(In)…”the words of Rep #TroyNehls (R)…during the field trip: ‘I’m not willing to do too damn much right now to help a #Democrat & to help Joe #Biden’s approval rating.’ IOW, a deal that #Democrats can accept, even a…restrictionist #border policy, is a deal #HouseRepublicans are unwilling to contemplate. In order to keep the border issue alive in 2024, they’d rather blow up #Senate negotiations. They see this as a win…, bc it keeps #immigration & the general aura of crisis on the front pages.”
@Nonilex the fentanyl! The fentanyl! I saw Brian Kilmeade being *quite* upset this very morning.
@wndlb you know people / media totally skipped over President Biden’s enormous accomplishment re the #UnitedStates’ joint effort w/ President #Xi / #PRC (#China) on #fentanyl.
https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-xi-meet-us-china-military-economic-tensions-grind-2023-11-15/
Link to David Dayen’s (@ddayen) / previously quoted #AmericanProspect prospect.org article:
#Republicans Don’t Want to Win an #Immigration Policy Fight
They just want to sustain the image of an immigration #crisis.
#HouseRepublicans #border #Congress #House #Senate #TheDysfunctionIsThePoint #PublicDisservice
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-01-05-republicans-immigration-policy-fight/
Adding new #PoliticalCartoon by Clay Jones on why #Trump & #Republicans are blocking any #border / #immigration #legislation while #Biden is #POTUS to this thread.
