Immigrant children as young as 14 were found working illegally amid dangerous heavy equipment at a Tennessee firm that makes parts for lawn mowers sold by John Deere and other companies, according to Labor Department officials.
Republicans kill border bill in a sign of Trump's strength and McConnell's waning influence (February 2024)
www.nbcnews.com
... Within 48 hours of the release of a long-awaited immigration and foreign aid bill he had championed, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's Republican conference rejected his pitch to support it, knifed the deal and left it for dead.
Just four Republicans voted for it. In the end, even McConnell backtracked and voted against the package that he had helped develop.
It was a jarring moment on Capitol Hill that pointed to a changed landscape: The Kentucky Republican, a one-man power center for more than a decade, is seeing his influence with fellow senators wane as his party continues to transform into the right-wing populist mold of Donald Trump. The former president, who fiercely opposed the border deal and has long pushed fellow Republicans to turn away from McConnell, is cruising to a third consecutive GOP presidential nomination. ...
GOP senators seethe as Trump blows up delicate immigration compromise
www.cnn.com
... Senior Senate Republicans are furious that Donald Trump may have killed an emerging bipartisan deal over the southern border, depriving them of a key legislative achievement on a pressing national priority and offering a preview of what's to come with Trump as their likely presidential nominee.
In recent weeks, Trump has been lobbying Republicans both in private conversations and in public statements on social media to oppose the border compromise being delicately hashed out in the Senate, according to GOP sources familiar with the conversations -- in part because he wants to campaign on the issue this November and doesn't want President Joe Biden to score a victory in an area where he is politically vulnerable. ...
Trump says blame it on me' if border bill fails (January 2024)
thehill.com
... Former President Trump told his supporters during a rally in Nevada that he is fine with being blamed for tanking the bipartisan border bill currently negotiated in the Senate.
While speaking to an animated crowd of backers in Las Vegas, Nev., Trump, the current GOP front-runner, appeared to welcome the potential blame he could face if successfully persuading Republicans in CongresS to tank the bipartisan border security bill. ...
@#28 .Again, see #11. You absolutely did ask for a ,ink and I provided it.
Yeah, in #19 your current alias provided a link that has little to do with the topic at hand. Yeah, the House put forward an extremist bill. So, what's yer point?
Big whoop. Not going anywhere.
Bloodrock - D.O.A. (1971)
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Why didn't the House GOP want to sign on to the bipartisan Senate bill, proffered by the GOP that had most, if not nearly all) of what they wanted?
Why do the Republicans seem to want to keep border security as a political talking point instead of a solved problem?
@#29 ... Why do the Republicans seem to want to keep border security as a political talking point instead of a solved problem? ...
Oh wait...
Trump says 'blame it on me' if border bill fails
thehill.com
... Former President Trump told his supporters during a rally in Nevada that he is fine with being blamed for tanking the bipartisan border bill currently negotiated in the Senate.
While speaking to an animated crowd of backers in Las Vegas, Nev., Trump, the current GOP front-runner, appeared to welcome the potential blame he could face if successfully persuading Republicans in CongresS to tank the bipartisan border security bill. ...
So, there was a bill in Congress that could have helped resolve the problems at our border.
And fmr Pres Trump seems to be proud about killing that bill?
WTF????
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