House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the House still plans to vote on the Republican immigration bill next week, despite the President's tweet this morning warning GOP members they should "stop wasting their time" on immigration.
"We’ll work through the weekend and you’ll see that bill on the floor next week," he said.
Where things in Congress stand now: The House on Thursday rejected one of two immigration bills Republicans have been working on. The second measure — a more moderate proposal known as the compromise bill — was scheduled for a vote today, but at the last minute, Republicans decided to postpone it.
Negotiators are now working on specific issues: An expansion of the e-verify system and addressing farm state lawmaker concerns of agriculture visas. To be perfectly clear: These are not clean or easy issues.
So can it pass? As of noon yesterday, the immigration bill wasn’t just short of the votes, aides said — it was well short of the votes. It would be quite something to turn that around in 72 hours.