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Immigration Bill Survives Senate After 18-Hour GOP Fight | Ep. 1
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A $70 billion immigration enforcement bill cleared the Senate 52–47 after an 18-hour Republican standoff over a controversial $1.8 billion settlement fund. Plus: Colorado's Democratic AG primary heads into its final stretch with a credentials debate front and center.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
A seventy-billion-dollar immigration enforcement bill nearly collapsed in the Senate this week, not over border policy, but over a fund to pay people Donald Trump considers political persecution victims. The Senate passed the bill fifty-two to forty-seven early Friday morning, but the path to that vote was eighteen hours of internal Republican fighting that exposed some real fractures in the party.
But the near-miss wasn't about Democrats this time. It was about a one-point-eight-billion-dollar fund buried in the legislation, designed to compensate people Trump's administration classifies as victims of political persecution.
The signal worth watching here is what happens to the fund next. The Attorney General testified that the settlement fund won't proceed.
The important distinction for listeners tracking this is between what the Senate passed and what becomes law. These aren't the same thing yet.
Shifting to state-level politics, Colorado's Democratic attorney general primary is entering its final stretch before the June thirtieth vote. Secretary of State Jena Griswold is the frontrunner by fundraising, but her rivals are focusing their attacks on a specific credential gap: courtroom experience.
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