Schumer Says Senate Will Move Forward With Border Bill Vote Wednesday

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says the U.S. Senate will hold a vote on the bipartisan border deal on Wednesday, despite Republican opposition.

In a closed door meeting Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told his fellow Republican senators to vote 'no' on the bill, noting that while there is nothing wrong with the legislation, the political winds have changed. Translation: Donald Trump is actively pressuring Republicans to vote against the bill so that he can continue to run on the immigration issue during his campaign.

In a stunning turn of events, Republicans are now refusing to vote for the strongest border compromise bill in American history, and they now stand in opposition to even border patrol agents.

Acting Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Troy Miller said the bill contains "the strongest set of tools we have had in decades" to secure the border in an internal Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) memo.

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/schumer-says-senate-will-move-forward-with-border-bill-vote-wednesday

[Fla Dem]

1. Good move. Get it on the record that the Democrats voted for a tough Border Act.

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But the Republicans wouldn't vote for it. So it's Republicans fault migrants continue to flow across the border.

DO NOT blame the Democrats.
DO NOT blame President Biden.

BLAME your Republican politicians who Trump is leading by the nose.

This is the message Democrats have to deliver everyday.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. There won't be any record if it's filibustered

I hope Schumer can count votes.

[DemocraticPatriot]

6. If it is filibustered, we can likewise hang THAT around the neck of every

Republican senator.....


President Biden was right, the Republicans in thrall to Trump have no backbone---
not even to protect their own political interests, against the threats of Trump....

[onenote]

12. The repubs have defeated cloture. There is a recorded vote on cloture.

Easy enough to hang a no vote on cloture around their necks as a no vote on border security.

[Fiendish Thingy]

14. It only that were true.

We can try, but it’s hard to shame an individual senator for a cloture vote, which only means they oppose ending debate.

A floor vote on a specific bill is much harder to avoid accountability for.

[Midnight Writer]

2. Good.

[spanone]

4. Get the Scumbags on the Record!!!!

[DemocraticPatriot]

5. GOOD! Let the GQP Bastards put themselves on the record that they are opposed to

securing the border--- after they spent most of the past year bitching about it!


If they filibuster--- that will only serve as an indictment against every Republican in the U.S. Senate!

[Johonny]

7. The house suddenly has a lot of time

To come with their version of the bill.

[MichMan]

15. They passed one last year

[Dr. T]

8. Is Schumer trying reverse psychology?

"If Schumer wants us to vote against it, then we're for it" type stuff? The MAGAt's in congress will need straightjackets if that's the case.

[SouthernDem4ever]

9. He needs to get those on the record that are in opposition

The vote is a good idea.

[PortTack]

10. Seems a good move! If the gqp want to waste their time with a filibuster let 'em!

[ZonkerHarris]

11. hahaha they fell for it. Get them down on the record for their vote. Then shove it down their throats for the next 10 mo

[Blue Idaho]

13. Get those fucking Republicans on record

And then beat them with it all the way to the election.

[Martin68]

16. Excellent timing! Putting the GOP firmly between a rock and a had place with no place to go.

It’s a full-court press by Democrats to make the GOP entirely accountable for the border issue.