A growing number of House Republicans are accusing their conservative colleagues of enabling Democratic wins, especially after this weekend's foreign aid votes.
Multiple members believe they could have gotten concessions from Democrats on border policy in exchange for Ukraine funding, only to be blown up by backlash from conservatives.
GOP leadership brought up border security provisions alongside their foreign aid package — but the package was blocked by Republicansfrom reaching the House floor under normal rules.
It ultimately failed to get the two-thirds majority needed to pass the House under suspension of the rules.
"If you were a true conservative, you would actually advance border security, but what they want to do is they want to blow up border security," Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) told Axios.
"[T]he members who scream the loudest about border security were actively and knowingly preventing us from getting it done," another member said.
"They're making us the most bipartisan Congress ever," a third member told Axios. "Because they are unwilling to compromise just a little bit in a divided government, they force us to make bigger concessions and deals with the Dems."
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/22/house-republicans-greene-border-security-foreign-aid
@cdarwin Yes, those "politicians" are not acting like politicians. They're acting like spoiled children. Politics is the art of compromise.
They've missed the whole point of government by consensus. I don't think that's an accident. They and their constituents don't want consensus, they want a dictatorship or they think they do.
