A thread of commentary today on the ugly games Congressional Republicans are playing as Trump pulls their strings and they block aid to Ukraine and torpedo the border bill they claim desperately to want. Heather Cox Richardson quotes Senator Brian Schatz,
“I’ve never seen anything like it. They literally demanded specific policy, got it, and then killed it.”
#Republicans #Trump #border #immigration #Ukraine
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-5-2024
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