New Report Details Rift Between House, Senate Dems on Border Bill: 'Betrayal,' 'Schumer Destroyed...

[DonViejo]

New Report Details Rift Between House, Senate Dems on Border Bill: ‘Betrayal,’ ‘Schumer Destroyed All Our Leverage’

By Reed Richardson June 28th, 2019, 11:00 pm

House and Senate Democrats lobbed accusations of “betrayal” at each other in a bitter dispute over an emergency border funding bill that passed over the objections of many progressives like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal.

“Schumer destroyed all our leverage on Wednesday by not being able to hold his people,” an anonymous senior House Democratic aide told the Washington Post, which offers a blow-by-blow account of the Democratic infighting.

According to the Post, Speaker Nancy Pelosi understood that the House would lead the Democrats’ legislative plan, passing a bill early in the week that would raise detention facility standards and put more constraints on the Trump administration’s border policy. Then, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer would use that bill to push Republicans in the Senate to compromise. But things quickly unraveled, prompting House aides to call the debacle a “betrayal” and “broken deal.”

“They’re blaming everyone but themselves,” one senior Senate Democratic aide told the Post, firing back at House Democrats’ complaints. Moderate House Democrats were the ones who unexpectedly revolted, causing Pelosi’s plan to stall and allow the Senate to move on its own version, which passed by a huge bipartisan margin of 84-8.

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https://www.mediaite.com/politics/new-report-details-rift-between-house-senate-dems-on-border-bill-betrayal-schumer-destroyed-all-our-leverage/

[watoos]

1. Schumer caved to McConnell.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. Again! nt

[dalton99a]

3. Not the first time

Passing the baton to Schumer was a huge mistake for Harry Reid

[WhiteTara]

4. Schumer has never been able to hold his caucus

and he's a disaster of a senate leader. I was disappointed that they kept him this session.

[MagickMuffin]

5. Pass the Torch . . . . .

. . . . . Chuck