Immigration

Vote on the House GOP’s “moderate” Immigration Bill Delayed, Possibly Canceled

Written by SK Ashby

Even before the House GOP's more radical anti-immigration bill supported by the Freedom Caucus went down in flames yesterday with 40 Republicans voting against it, they delayed the vote on a more "moderate" (but still terrible) bill until today.

Today's vote has also been delayed until next week.

Republicans' efforts to overhaul immigration isn't going as smoothly as they hoped. After a vote on the more conservative of two GOP proposals failed Thursday, a vote on the more moderate "compromise" bill was pushed off to Friday -- and then to next week.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, told reporters Thursday evening that more issues need to be worked out before the House takes up a vote, after House Republicans met to discuss the matter Thursday afternoon. Asked if the House would take up a vote on the compromise bill Friday, Scalise said, "Right now we're going to keep working with our members."

I think it would be reasonable to assume they won't vote on this next week, either.

It's still possible they will hold a vote at some point, but this bill is also expected to fail. Furthermore, Trump says they should "stop wasting their time."

Republicans probably could have bought themselves a few points of approval rating by passing something -- anything -- in the middle of a public relations and humanitarian crisis, but they can't even manage that because the majority of elected Republicans are lizard people.

The Democratically-controlled Senate voted to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill under President Obama in 2013, a bill that also included over $40 billion for border security, but it was shot down by House Republicans. Former Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) refused to even bring it up for a vote.

Republican control of the House has ruined this country for most of a decade.