Rubio: Trump-backed immigration bill won't pass Senate
Source: The Hill
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is predicting that a White House-backed bill aimed at curbing legal immigration won't have enough support to pass the Senate.
"That bill's not going to pass. ... I think the White House knows that you don't have 60 votes for that in the Senate," Rubio told a Florida CBS station.
The bill, which President Trump rolled out last week with GOP Sens. David Perdue (Ga.) and Tom Cotton (Ark.), would aim to move legal immigration to a "merit-based" system and cut the number of green cards given out every year. Trump made cracking down on immigration a key promise of his presidential campaign. But the legislation faces a steep uphill climb in the Senate, where it will need 60 votes, and is already getting pushback from several GOP senators and Democrats.
Rubio pointed to the fight over green cards as a "big difference of opinion" that he has with the White House-supported legislation, but noted he backs changes to the legal immigration system.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/345609-rubio-trump-backed-immigration-bill-wont-pass-senate
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