is reportedly in the process of deporting and/or relocating them, but Biden’s rhetoric (and policies) were the magnet that drew them there.Īt least one of the migrants has reportedly tested positive for COVID-19, which brings us to the issue that has plagued Biden since the onset of the Delta variant: the fact that we still can’t declare “ independence” from the virus. In a scene so discomfiting the FAA had to shut down FOX’s ability to collect aerial drone footage of it, some 12,000 Haitian migrants are currently camped under a bridge near Del Rio, Texas. It’s starting to look like Democrats are playing a high-stakes internecine game of chicken where a head-on collision would spell the end of Biden’s domestic agenda.īut Biden’s problems don’t end in Washington. On top of all of this, the Senate parliamentarian delivered another “ crushing blow” to Democrats, declaring that immigration reform (including a pathway to citizenship) cannot be included in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation measure.
Joe Biden Is a Kinder, Gentler Destroyer of American Norms Krysten Sinema says she will not back it if the bipartisan bill is delayed or fails.) Joe Manchin reportedly thinks the $3.5 trillion bill should wait until 2022 (and, according to Politico, Arizona Sen.
But progressives say they won’t vote for the bipartisan bill unless the $3.5 trillion social spending package passes first, while West Virginia Sen. In a precarious ploy to appease the two wings of his party, Democrats pledged to pass this sweeping progressive wish list and a more modest bipartisan infrastructure bill currently scheduled for a September 27 vote in the House at the same time. Let’s start with his legislative agenda, where progressives’ most ambitious hopes rest on a $3.5 trillion social policy plan that Democrats intend to ram through via reconciliation, which means they can’t afford to lose a single vote in the Senate. It’s starting to feel like the wheels are coming off for Joe Biden at the job he’s been dreaming of since he first arrived in the Senate in 1973.
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