‘Absolutely Not’: House GOP Balks at Senate Immigration Plan

Speaker Johnson reportedly told his fellow House Republicans that he would not take up the Senate’s immigration and border security deal but would instead wait for President Trump to return to the White House.

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Senator Sinema at the Capitol August 3, 2022. She is one of the three lawmakers negotiating the immigration reform plan. AP/J. Scott Applewhite

House Republicans are unlikely to take up the bipartisan immigration reform deal being negotiated in the Senate as Speaker Johnson remains on thin ice with the right flank of his conference. The deal, which is being hammered out by a group of three senators, will do nothing to stem the tide of migrant crossings, conservatives say. 

“Absolutely not,” Mr. Johnson replied curtly on X to the reported details of the immigration reform plan, which were leaked to a conservative anti-immigration group, the Immigration Accountability Project. 

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