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The House is set to vote on two immigration bills next week — a conservative proposal crafted by Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and a compromise proposal GOP leaders negotiated with moderates and conservatives.
“I’m looking at both of them,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” in an interview Friday morning from the White House lawn. “I certainly wouldn’t sign the more moderate one.” …
Democrats are opposed to both bills, and neither measure is expected to pass. Still, Trump’s comments are a blow to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who told the Republican Conference in a private meeting on Wednesday that the president was “excited” about the prospect of passing an immigration bill this year.
The Goodlatte bill has zero chance of getting out of the House, let alone passing the Senate, where it will need at least a handful of Democrats to clear a cloture vote. The compromise bill supposedly solved that problem by making concessions in both directions, and just yesterday Ryan claimed that the bill had been written with cooperation from the White House:
The speaker said that Republicans have been working “hand in glove” with members of the administration to make sure the president’s priorities are included in legislation voted on the floor. …
“There are members wanted to have votes on their issues, there were members who wanted to have vote on the Goodlatte-McCaul bill, they’re gonna get that. And then we now have a bill that represents a compromise that is going to be brought to the floor so members can actually vote on legislation tackling this issue and this has a chance of going into law,” said Ryan.