No. of Recommendations: 7
That is NOT saying "everyone was in love with this bill", nor anything similar. That IS saying that Reps were afraid it might have a chance, so they preemptively killed it without a debate or vote. Otherwise, let Biden and the Dems suffer a loss in a vote, and rub their noses in it until November. But they couldn't risk it passing, and depriving the Reps of an issue in November.
The later vote (in May) was destined to fail because the Ukraine portion wasn't in it ("standalone"). Without provisions about the DREAMERs (which also wasn't in the bill), it lost a lot of Dem votes. That wouldn't have happened a few months ago. May have lost some, but the Ukraine aid would have limited the loss of Dem votes.
