President Trump’s immigration framework faced an unexpected opponent this week as it crashed on the Senate floor: Republicans.
The opposition from more than a fourth of the GOP conference came despite an intense pressure campaign by the White House and the Department of Homeland Security, which shot down back-to-back bipartisan offers.
In the end, 14 GOP senators rejected Trump’s proposal, helping make it the least popular of the Senate’s competing measures.
Here’s a look at the GOP senators who bucked Trump.
thehill.com/homenews/senate/374321-the-14-gop-senators-who-voted-against-trumps-immigration-framework
h/t Goneviral
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Love him or hate him, Trump won the Presidency, and he won the Presidency in large part because of his position on immigration. If this was the bill that he supported to at least partially resolve this issue in the US, then all Republican Senators should have supported it. Ted Cruz did not win. Rand Paul did not win. Flake, Sasse, Murkowski, et al are feckless, and Murkowski owes Trump for opening Sec 1002 of ANWR. These imbecile Republican Senators have widened the rift by their intransigence and are virtually guaranteeing a contentious outcome not productive to the well-being of the US union.