According to Mike Johnson, the immigration deal is absolutely dead.
The assumption can be made that if this was on the docket in a non-election year, it might not be dead. But since Donald Trump elbowed his way into the conversation and wants immigration to be an issue on which he gets to pontificate with his pants-on-fire, 4th-grade insights, the deal is going nowhere.
Gotta give Trump what he wants, and Joe Biden can’t have anything to crow about ahead of November. It’s baldfaced ugly politics at its best, i.e worst, and the immigration issue will linger, unaddressed until after November, when, God forbid, a Trump administration would open detention centers and send thousands of migrants, including some who have been here for a while, packing.
Just another of a million reasons why Trump can’t happen again.
The level of obeisance here is stunning. Trump, tragically, is Republicans’ ticket to power– nothing more. So noses are held, concessions are made, and souls must be sold.
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