It's not the first time Rep. Troy Nehls has seemed to say the quiet part of loud: In December he suggested impeachment was about giving "ammo" to Trump.
As senators work on a compromise deal to address border security and immigration, at least one Republican is suggesting politics is a key motivator for him.
"Let me tell you, I'm not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden's approval rating," Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas told CNN this week. "I will not help the Democrats try to improve this man's dismal approval ratings. I'm not going to do it. Why would I?"
Nehls indicated he'd accept only a proposal similar to HR 2, a hardline immigration bill that got zero Democratic votes when it passed the House last year.
Trump over donors, donors over religion, religion over party, party over family, family over so-called conservative principles (oxymoron)and country several steps lower than that.
Democrats fell for what exactly, doing their job in a lame duck government so people can see what Republicans are really about yet still somehow being blamed by fake Democrats?
I never thought I would, but I kinda miss the time when Republicans would lie about their motivations for being awful.
This whole "mask off but still no consequences" bullshit is even more frustrating than when everyone knew but most people refused to acknowledge it 😮💨
i mean that's pretty much the same story about immigration for the last 40 years and it's why nothing has gotten done. they'd rather use immigrants as wedge issues then do something about the problem.
If it's such a big deal, how come when Trump was in the White House and they held both chambers of Congress (~2017–2019), why didn't they solve the issue then?
This is standard, decades-long GOP mantra, championed by Mitch McConnell. It's also quite effective. Give a man a boogeyman to blame for all of his problems, and he'll follow you anywhere.
It's worse than that now. Democrats rolled their eyes, started setting up a deal to address their boogeyman, and now there's Republicans saying they refuse because it might help the other side.
What the hell lol it probally would hurt Biden but it will hurt the country and also the gop will just hurt themselves too God I hate the two party system
Probably because immigration reform almost never means just throwing down the borders and reverting to the old rules where you only had to prove a few years of residency to be eligible for citizenship.
Partially because racism, and partially because even a decent number of our allies would take extreme umbridge with the US doing that because of how it'd brain drain basically everything where the US offers a more competitive standard of living for given income.
The European tech sector would more or less instantly vanish because of how much more well paid American coders are by comparison, and Mexico would find itself losing every scrap of development and progress it has achieved over the last century as every educated professional files straight across the border.
Would do wonders screwing over America's adversaries though considering how literally all of them have such a worse standard of living that they have to set up structures to keep their people in as opposed to keeping the rest of the world out.
Basically the platonic ideal is to brain drain our adversaries, and strike a state by state balance with everyone else for what sort of freedom of movement arrangement most benefits both countries, the Philippines for example would be over the moon for a more open immigration system with the US since brain drain impacts them a lot less given how prevalent remittance is among Philippines expats.
Vietnam likewise would probably negotiate something more akin to a military exchange program since the war has become water under the bridge when compared to the ever present threat China presents to them, and Americans are some of the only foreigners the Japanese are able to tolerate enough to not actively scare off expats and immigrants. Brazil would LOVE an incentivization for American rocket scientists to brush up on their Portuguese, the idea of becoming a space port super power makes Brazilian state leaders drool over themselves at the possibilities, especially if French Guyana stops cooperating with the ESA.
As senators work on a compromise deal to address border security and immigration, at least one Republican is suggesting politics is a key motivator for him.
"Let me tell you, I'm not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden's approval rating," Republican Rep.
Nehls indicated he'd accept only a proposal similar to HR 2, a hardline immigration bill that got zero Democratic votes when it passed the House last year.
"Chuck Schumer has had HR 2 on his desk since July," Nehls said, referring to the Senate majority leader.
HR 2, known as the Secure the Border Act of 2023, would entail a broader rewrite of the country's immigration laws, including curtailing migrants' ability to seek asylum in the US and forcing the continued construction of a wall on the border.
Republicans have insisted that border security be addressed before any further aid can be provided to Ukraine and Israel.
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