The White House informed Senate Democrats that it could back sweeping hardline immigration policy changes as part of the negotiations over President Biden's emergency funding request.
The only way we can get support to give foreign nations more money for weapons of war is by first agreeing to harsher treatment of asylum seekers at home.
Cool. Great. I’m so glad nothing is fundamentally changing.
good with compromising with Republicans, and it looks like we’re going to finally see it.
What do you mean finally? As always with the DNC leadership, the current administration and Senate start every negotiation with a barely acceptable compromise and then lets Republicans take it far to the right of that whether they need (or have any chance of getting) Republican votes or not.
Now, you could argue that this is a terrible fucking deal and we don’t want either of these things.
But that’s true the majority of the time moderates and Republicans compromise.
Yup and those times are every time the center right to right wing Dem leadership has any power at all.
The only way we can get support to give foreign nations more money for weapons of war is by first agreeing to harsher treatment of asylum seekers at home.
Cool. Great. I’m so glad nothing is fundamentally changing.
Well, Biden did say he was good with compromising with Republicans, and it looks like we’re going to finally see it.
Republicans get to make the life of asylum seekers that come to America even worse than trump did…
And Israel gets billions of dollars more to continue their genocide.
Now, you could argue that this is a terrible fucking deal and we don’t want either of these things.
But that’s true the majority of the time moderates and Republicans compromise.
What do you mean finally? As always with the DNC leadership, the current administration and Senate start every negotiation with a barely acceptable compromise and then lets Republicans take it far to the right of that whether they need (or have any chance of getting) Republican votes or not.
Yup and those times are every time the center right to right wing Dem leadership has any power at all.