Pivot

At some point Dems switched from arguing this was a necessary deal to get Ukraine money to arguing that the immigration provisions were good in and of themselves, and began championing them.

Again, there is a big difference between "we tried to get a deal on things by giving them stuff they wanted in exchange for stuff we wanted" and "we gave the Republicans their dream wish list which was good, akshually."

Dems are out there arguing that this bill would have "fixed the border." It's madness.

Chris Murphy:

Congress now has a decision: do you want immigration to just be a perpetual political cudgel, or do you want to solve the problem?

This week, every Senator gets to vote. Support a compromise, bipartisan bill to fix the border

What will Republicans do? Fix the border or keep the chaos to please Trump?



We have a chance to pass a bipartisan bill to fund Ukraine the fix the border and we should do our job.

Nobody had more optimism than me that Republicans would do the right thing and vote for our bipartisan bill to fix the border and fund Ukraine.

Republicans pretended they wanted to fix the border. They don't.

Republicans said they wanted a bipartisan border fix and we got one

Trump told them to oppose the bipartisan border bill to keep the chaos at the border [...]

It's madness to thinks this would "fix the border," and it's certainly madness to think this "fix" would stop conservatives from screeching about it.

What is the crisis? What is the chaos? What is it fixing? Either in reality or in the political problem of Fox News screeching about it every day?