Ryan scraps 'abolish ICE' vote
By RACHAEL BADE and KYLE CHENEY
07/16/2018 08:07 PM EDT
Updated 07/16/2018 08:48 PM EDT
Speaker Paul Ryan quashed a rank-and-file effort to force Democrats to take a politically toxic vote to abolish the federal government’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, sources familiar with the matter told POLITICO.
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) last week floated the idea of forcing Democrats to vote on a bill that would eliminate ICE, a proposal backed by the far-left but is unpopular with most voters. Republicans, the thinking went, would win either way: Democrats would either back the bill and watch Republicans use it against them in the midterms. Or a portion of Democrats would oppose it, depressing the liberal base.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...abolish-725071
