As senators work on a compromise deal to address border security and immigration, at least one Republican is suggesting politics is a key motivator for him.

“Let me tell you, I’m not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden’s approval rating,” Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas told CNN this week. “I will not help the Democrats try to improve this man’s dismal approval ratings. I’m not going to do it. Why would I?”

Nehls indicated he’d accept only a proposal similar to HR 2, a hardline immigration bill that got zero Democratic votes when it passed the House last year.

    • Flying Squid
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      676 months ago

      And yet people vote for them. They are just admitting they aren’t interested in helping people and the country and they still get voted for.

    • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      16 months ago

      Trump over donors, donors over religion, religion over party, party over family, family over so-called conservative principles (oxymoron)and country several steps lower than that.