down, like a couple moderates but they are an overwhelming minority in this party who believe that things just need to get done and they need to stop talking about it, steph. eugene, the president, i mentioned it, went to democrats a week ago and said he had a framework everyone could get behind and now we ve got democrats adding things. they ve put back paid leave, put the s.a.l.t. deduction in, immigration proposal, all of this is now back in the bill so why wasn t the president s framework the final word? yeah, i mean, he also said and the white house said over and over last week that this would get unanimous and had unanimous support from democrats and that they felt it seemed like they felt they had these assurances. that is obviously not the case. and the reason is because congress knows they have a lot of the power here. the president, despite being as powerful as he is and as much being the leader of his party, he is not the one that holds all the levers here. you have me
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a big part of president biden s immigration plan in the $3.5 trillion bill they re trying to pass which includes the president s infrastructure priorities and climate stuff and much more. the immigration proposal they wanted to include would have meant a path to citizenship for millions of people already living in the u.s. including the dreamers. people who were brought to this country as kids. many of whom have lived in the united states ever since they got here as kids. they ve lived their entire adult lives only in this country. now, democrats are trying to get that big bill, that big budget reconciliation bill, including all of this stuff, passed with only democratic votes. under arcane senate rules that means they have to go through the parliamentarian to get everything approved to basically get her permission to include what they want to include in the bill. we have been waiting all last week for an answer from that parliamentarian on whether the immigration stuff could be includ
then this weekend she finally issued her ruling saying the democrats immigration proposal as it was presented to her, no, she is not going to let it be put in the bill. basically said it was too broad and democrats need to go back to the drawing board. now, even before the parliamentarian issued a ruling this weekend democrats said that they had other plans. if she said no they would not give up. they would not take no for an answer. they would keep revising their plan and coming up with new proposals until it passed muster with the parliamentarian because they are going to pass something. today the second ranking democrat in the senate senator dick durbin reiterated that pledge and issued a joint statement with california senator alex padilla which says quote we are deeply disappointed in the parliamentarian s decision but the fight for immigration reform will continue. senate democrats have prepared an alternative proposal for the parliamentarian s consideration in the coming days.
only democratic votes. under arcane senate rules, that means they have to go through the parliamentarian to get everything approved to basically get her permission to include what they want to include in the bill. we have been waiting all last week for an answer from that parliamentarian on whether the immigration stuff could be included in the democrats bill. then this weekend she finally issued her ruling saying the democrats immigration proposal as it was presented to her, no, she is not going to let it be put in the bill. basically said it was too broad and democrats need to go back to the drawing board. now, even before the parliamentarian issued a ruling this weekend, democrats said that they had other plans, that if she said no, they would not give up, they would not take no for an answer, they would keep revising their plan and coming up with new proposals until it passed muster with the parliamentarian because they are going to pass something.