The Senate rejected both a bipartisan immigration plan and a more restrictive proposal by President Donald Trump on Thursday, suggesting the latest election-year debate on an issue that fires up both parties' voters will produce a familiar outcome: stalemate.
Facing a White House veto threat and opposition from the Senate's GOP leaders, the chamber derailed a plan by bipartisan senators that would have helped 1.8 million young immigrant "Dreamers" achieve citizenship.
Trump's own plan fared even worse as 60 senators voted no and just 39 voted for it - 21 shy of the 60 needed.
Top Democrats had held out faint hopes that the bipartisan package would prevail, or at least force Trump to negotiate further.
Besides helping Dreamers achieve citizenship, the president's measure would have provided wall funding in one burst, rather than doling it out over 10 years as the bipartisan plan proposed.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., assailed Democrats for failing to offer "a single proposal that gives us a realistic chance to make law." Instead, he said, Democrats should back Trump's "Extremely generous" proposal.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Trump has "Stood in the way of every single proposal that has had a chance of becoming law." He added, "The American people will blame President Trump and no one else for the failure to protect Dreamers."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bipartisan-immigration-pact-among-several-054822699.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews
Facing a White House veto threat and opposition from the Senate's GOP leaders, the chamber derailed a plan by bipartisan senators that would have helped 1.8 million young immigrant "Dreamers" achieve citizenship.
Trump's own plan fared even worse as 60 senators voted no and just 39 voted for it - 21 shy of the 60 needed.
Top Democrats had held out faint hopes that the bipartisan package would prevail, or at least force Trump to negotiate further.
Besides helping Dreamers achieve citizenship, the president's measure would have provided wall funding in one burst, rather than doling it out over 10 years as the bipartisan plan proposed.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., assailed Democrats for failing to offer "a single proposal that gives us a realistic chance to make law." Instead, he said, Democrats should back Trump's "Extremely generous" proposal.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Trump has "Stood in the way of every single proposal that has had a chance of becoming law." He added, "The American people will blame President Trump and no one else for the failure to protect Dreamers."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bipartisan-immigration-pact-among-several-054822699.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews
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