BUDGET/DEMS: “A bipartisan budget deal announced in the Senate Wednesday [2-7-18] afternoon is already facing an internal Democratic rebellion.
As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) took to the floor to announce a massive deal that would boost domestic and defense spending, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was entering her third hour on the House floor expressing opposition, to the delight of liberal activists and lawmakers.
Progressives are frustrated that Senate Democrats cut a budget deal while relief for the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers remains in limbo — and with nothing more than a commitment from McConnell to begin an open-ended immigration debate next week…
Centrists who wanted to avoid another shutdown fight over immigration also have a lot to like about the Senate’s deal. Among its specific victories for politically vulnerable Democrats, particularly those from red and purple states, are new opioids funding and a way forward on a pensions fix.”
-Elana Schor and Heather Caygle, “Left seethes as Senate clinches budget deal,” Politico, Feb. 7, 2018 04:24pm