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.
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
Which is odd because the democratic party opposes progressives.