Republican Sen. James Lankford, who spent months negotiating the border provisions the GOP demanded, said he may vote against his own bill this week.

Republican Sen. James Lankford, who spent months negotiating the border provisions the GOP demanded, said he may vote against his own bill this week.

Senate Republicans on Monday signaled their plan to filibuster bipartisan legislation that paired tougher border policy with more U.S. aid to Ukraine, a stunning reversal less than 24 hours after the legislation had been unveiled.

With ex-president Donald Trump urging them to kill it, and many on the right up in arms about the proposal, top Senate Republicans emerged from a heated closed-door meeting and said they needed more time to review the agreement, suggesting that a scheduled Wednesday vote to advance the bill is all but doomed to fail.

  • Billiam@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The 30% deplorables, yes. But for better or worse, there’s a group of voters who flip-flop every election for whatever reason- memory too short to remember what the GOP is like, or dissatisfaction with gas prices or food prices or whatever. That’s the group that these political games are aimed at. They’re too stupid to be against the GOP, but not so stupid you can’t convince them to support the Dems long enough to sway an election.