A House Republican Is Leading An Effort That Would Humiliate Trump If He Tries To End DACA

[babylonsister]

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/31/house-republican-leading-effort-humiliate-trump-daca.html

A House Republican Is Leading An Effort That Would Humiliate Trump If He Tries To End DACA

By Jason Easley on Thu, Aug 31st, 2017 at 9:12 pm



Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) has announced that he will attempt to force a vote on a bill that would protect the hundreds of thousands of people who came to the United States as undocumented minors.

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Coffman has 12 Republican co-sponsors of his legislation and will get virtually universal Democratic support. He needs 218 House member signatures to force a vote on his bill. A companion bill has already been introduced in the Senate by Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham, and that legislation would begin just a few votes shy of the 60 votes needed for passage.

Republicans are caught in their usual immigration trap. The party is caught between the immigration hardliners and those who support immigration reform. If Coffman can get 218 signatures, his legislation stands a good chance of passage. If Republicans in Congress lead the charge to protect DACA recipients, it will humiliate this president and once again show that he has no power or influence over the policymaking within his own party.

Under Trump, the presidency has been referred to as sinking, but if Republicans and Democrats win this fight on DACA, Trump will find himself humilated again, and the presidency diminished to a historic low in the modern era of American politics.

[gtar100]

1. New winning strategy for republicans... do what democrats do.

That's what they used to have to do before Reagan gave them the encouragement to be true to their own selves out in public... mean, selfish, greedy, and entitled.

[zentrum]

2. It's a rare sighting

...to see a Republican actually do something right and good.

[cstanleytech]

5. Oh I suspect it has little to do with doing anything right or good rather its probably a case

of them being afraid of losing the next election and losing the paycheck not to mention the potential damage to them becoming a lobbyist for the varies corporations once they have enough time in office and move to the private sector.

[zentrum]

6. Yes and yes.

They never change their real stripes.

[murielm99]

3. Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham.

Well, that's different.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. The DACA people are more American than Drumpf's wife