The CHC’s Tuesday proposals also come as the group has been purposefully excluded from Senate negotiations on border policy, which reportedly have centered on ways to curtail asylum and further fortify the border without addressing calls to overhaul the legal immigration system and appeals to give longtime undocumented immigrants a path to apply for legal status.
Their point is that the Republicans in the house were not going to pass a bill no matter what the Democrats or a bipartisan group did. Therefore, they should not have wasted their time.
I don’t happen to agree with this, but that’s what their point is
Yes, it was a bluff that failed by Republicans.
And we’re not talking about funding Ukraine anymore. Republicans got what they wanted. Democrats get nothing. So both sides are happy.