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Senate Dems Detach Spending and Immigration

Published by Front Page Mag

By Daniel Greenfield


And here we are.

Senate Democrats are willing to drop their demand that relief for Dreamers be tied to any long-term budget agreement — a potential boost for spending talks, but one that could face opposition from their House counterparts.

The shift comes in response to the deal struck between Senate leaders Monday to reopen the government and begin debate on an immigration bill next month. Meanwhile, budget negotiators are expressing optimism that a two-year agreement to lift stiff caps on defense and domestic spending is increasingly within reach.

“We’re viewing [immigration and spending] on separate terms because they are on separate paths,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Tuesday.

Shutdown theater is senseless. And when it fails, it tends to taint the cause attached to it.

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Link: https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/269125/senate-dems-detach-spending-and-immigration-daniel-greenfield


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