Lesson Learned?

It’s been a rough day for the brand-new House GOP leadership. After moving further and further to the right with their supplemental, they just had to pull their own bill. It’s quite remarkable to see how far they were willing to go to avoid working with us on a bipartisan basis in a failed attempt to get their extreme far-right on board:

• House GOP leadership dropped the funding level to $659 million… but that wasn’t enough for their conservatives.

• Then they added poison pill policy changes – but that wasn’t enough either.

• Finally, in a last ditch effort, they added a second bill that would have blocked any changes to – or expansion of – DACA. And STILL that wasn’t enough for their most extreme Members.

Lesson learned? House Republicans are united when it comes to partisan issues like suing the President. But on critical issues like providing resources to address a humanitarian crisis? That’s just way too much to ask.