One Democratic lawmaker called the situation "bats**t crazy."

House Republicans have voted down an effort to block immigration enforcers from using federal resources to detain or deport U.S. citizens.

During a House Judiciary Committee meeting on Wednesday, Democrats tabled amendments to a sweeping budget bill that President Donald Trump has dubbed “one big, beautiful bill.”

One amendment introduced by Representative Pramila Jayapal, the Democrat from Washington state, sought to make clear Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cannot detain or deport U.S. citizens under any circumstances. GOP lawmakers killed that amendment.

  • octopus_ink@slrpnk.netEnglish
    101·
    20 hours ago

    True, they could push a lot harder to the left. But let’s be realistic, if they did they would lose at the polls because the US is like 75% center or right.

    Pandering to the center right is NOT effective. They need to have the courage to stop being afraid of alienating the people who aren’t going to vote for them anyway and make some actual change happen.

    Republican-lite isn’t selling these days.

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
      5·
      17 hours ago

      It’s ironic since progressive policies are hugely popular, even with independents and Republicans. Yet people still insist that ‘most the country is right-leaning,’ because they conflate support for the Democratic Party with support for progressives

      If the Democrats ran on those progressive policies instead of neoliberal ones, they wouldn’t have this problem of being unpopular

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        16 hours ago

        Yet people still insist that ‘most the country is right-leaning,’ because they conflate support for the Democratic Party with support for progressives

        Which is odd because the democratic party opposes progressives.