No. of Recommendations: 1
There's a difference between digging in your heels and making it very clear that no deal is possible. And that anyone who tries to negotiate a deal will be blasted politically. There's no doubt that if the House GOP is only offering HR 2 and nothing, there will be no border bill. And now that the Senate knows that there will be no border bill, they're not going to bother negotiating a border bill.
So you end up with the exact opposite of the situation you hope for above. The border bill is dead, and if there can be only one, it will only be Ukraine funding. The likelihood is that no bills pass, of course - but the next most likely outcome is a clean foreign aid bill, and the possibility of a border bill the least likely of all. - albaby
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I know you are right but to drop it before even reaching the Senate floor was not a good faith effort in my estimation. Since it was never debated on the floor of either house, voters are deprived of the opportunity to learn where their representatives stand.
A true compromise would lie somewhere between the Senate proposal and HR2 but that possibility was never explored. As long as both sides can offer a plausible excuse blaming the other guy, then congress is happy to go with that and quickly move on to what really matters.
