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How many senators from an opposing side does it take before you’ll consider legislation bipartisan?
You are missing the point. I never said the bill wasn't bipartisan, I'm saying that the filibuster was also bipartisan, and there were more Senate Democrats who chose to filibuster than there were Senate Republicans involved in writing the bill.
And the fact remains that the Republican House bill that addresses the border has already passed the house and is sitting on Schumer's desk and has been for 15 months. THe Democrats decided that they should address this crisis that they have denied even existed for 3 years because it was hurting them in the election year, still play political games with the legislation and then blame the Republicans for playing politics in an election year?
The Democrats are entirely at fault for dragging the border crisis into an election year.
They should have kept working on it sure. Seems after Trump said he wanted it as a campaign issue the whole thing got dropped. It’s definitely not about what’s good for America. Shame.
You are pretending a rumor is fact. Your interpretation was a lie told by Chuck Schumer.
Trump's actual statement was that Congress shouldn't tie US border legislation to foreign aid the way the Democrats wanted to do it. While Schumer and the Democrats will tell you that the May 2024 bill was a clean border bill, the reading of the bill quickly proves that he was lying. This supposed clean border bill included funding requests for both Ukraine and Israel (the latter almost certainly the reason the Democrats joined the filibuster).
So no, I reject your chosen narrative that is built on the lies of Chuck Schumer. He is free to offer a bill that addresses the border and only the border, but he refuses to while he lies to you that he did.
Hell, most of what the Democrats say they want with the border bill has nothing to do with why the bill failed.
They could provide a bill that only includes the legislation granting the president more control over the border (I'll entertain that it is even necessary for the sake of argument) and that strengthens the requirement for applying for asylum and they could pass it tomorrow... the only reason that the bill could be filibustered was because of the appropriations contained in the bill, much of which was military spending connected to Ukraine and Israel.
So again, no. Republicans didn't drag the issue into the election year, the Democrats did... and the final bill that was killed was not a clean border bill, which is why it died, again.
The biggest issue at this point, as I see it, is the habit of Congress in the last decade or so to package very disparate legislation into a single bill as a way of protecting themselves from public backlash. It also allows them to build false narratives to attack other members of congress for "not voting on the bill to fix [insert crisis]" when it is likely that what the given congress member was voting against was some other piece of the legislation not connected to [insert crisis].
Congress should write targeted legislation that addresses a single issue that will allow all members of Congress to go on record voting for or against legislation on a specific issue.
And I leave you with one of my favorites scenes from the Simpsons that demonstrates the issue perfectly
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