Friday, January 12, 2018

Waiting for Lindsey

Is Graham's newfound buddy relationship with Trump feeling a strain?

According to Dick Durbin (see previous post), Graham pushed back on Trump's racist remarks in yesterday's DACA meeting. It appears that it was Durbin and Graham who had come up with the proposal that was put forward.
Democrats, under intense pressure from immigrant advocates, are determined to use their leverage to force a long-sought immigration deal.

Graham wouldn't say how the president responded, but he said that coming up with bipartisan support in the coming days "will matter to the president."

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., however, an immigration hard-liner and ally of Trump who also attended the Oval Office meeting, said that the bipartisan plan "is unacceptable" because of how it deals with ending the diversity lottery program and with family-based migration policy, a practice that conservatives deride as "chain migration."

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Cotton added that the group's border security proposal "doesn't give near enough resources to meet the president's demands."

Told of Cotton's public criticisms, Graham snapped back: "Sen. Cotton can present his proposal. We presented ours. I'm not negotiating with Sen. Cotton, and let me know when Sen. Cotton has a proposal that gets a Democrat. I'm dying to look at it."

  The State
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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