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Mounting a strong and unified posture in response to Russia’s threats to invade Ukraine is one of the few things that unite this White House with most Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill.
“This proposed FMS [Foreign Military Sale] case would replenish Saudi Arabia’s existing inventory of air-to-air missiles,” the White House said in a statement of administration policy.
Ilhan Omar said. “If there is urgency in getting that done, the senators need to understand that urgency as well.”
Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. the Congressional Progressive Caucus whip, said she’s worried leadership’s “deadline-driven” mentality could force progressives to “compromise too much,” like what happened in negotiations
House Democratic leaders used the fast-track avenue after the funding had to be stripped from a stopgap spending bill after some progressives revolted.
But there are still plenty of other issues for the House to wade through.
In the House Judiciary Committee’s portion of the reconciliation text, Democrats proposed to “recapture” unused green cards from prior years to make more of them available for high-skilled visa holders
The moderates relented after securing language ensuring the House will consider the infrastructure bill by Sept. 27.
Ilhan Omar, the Progressive Caucus whip, doesn’t view the rule language setting up a vote on the infrastructure bill by Sept. 27 as guaranteed and said the vote could slip if the reconciliation bill isn
“The votes in the House and Senate depend on us having both bills.”
House leaders have a week and a half to untangle a mess of competing Democratic priorities or else their party’s entire economic agenda may collapse.
Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, had come out against the weapons sale, worried about the signal it would send.
In last month’s announcement, the White House said the lower ceiling was a result of the current situation at the U.S.
Hours after the initial White House announcement, Press Secretary Jen Psaki released a statement saying, “we expect the President to set a final, increased refugee cap for the remainder of this fiscal
Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., chair of the House Judiciary Committee’s immigration panel.
On Friday, a group of House Democrats led by former Congressional Hispanic Caucus chairman Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, stressed the need to fix the U.S. immigration system after visiting a facility