Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi called it Thursday morning, when she said Republican so-called moderates were "too afraid to stick to their discharge petition pledge, and now are folding with this fake bill." They haven't folded on the fake immigration bill yet, but they folded on the discharge petition that would have brought real, compromise legislation to the floor.
As chaos (per usual) reigned in the House Thursday, the first of the two immigration bills failed. The extremely hard-line Goodlatte bill did better than it should have with Republicans, losing 231-193 with 41 Republicans voting against it. While that vote was proceeding it became clear that the second bill, the one that they call a compromise even when it was negotiated with White House white supremacist Stephen Miller, isn't likely to do much better. So leadership decided to postpone the vote on it. Now that vote is supposedly happening Friday, but it's not clear that it will happen at all.
This was the bill that they've been desperately trying to get Trump to say he would sign. Trump has had other plans, however, tweeting out the pointlessness of the whole effort, making some Republicans question why they were even taking the vote.
For all this failure, though, those supposed moderates gave Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan a big win: they killed the only real threat of immigration reform happening this session, the discharge petition. By allowing the House to bring the Goodlatte bill to the floor, the existing Denham-Curbelo discharge petition was basically nullified. All but five Republicans voted to do just that, to make this discharge petition go away. And because of House rules, there's only one day left before the election in which another one could come to the floor (it has to happen on the second or fourth Monday of a month when Congress is in session).
Ryan said he wanted the discharge petition to fail because it would never be signed by Trump. So he ends up with two bills that won't even pass the House, much less the Senate, to even get to Trump's desk.
Immigration reform isn't going to happen under Paul Ryan because the Republican base of deplorables—and Donald Trump—don't want it to.
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