Refugee cap row shows fractures between Biden and liberals

Published April 18, 2021 10:55am ET



A group of liberal House Democrats who sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Friday demanding he fulfill a campaign promise to lift refugee caps — which he later in the day announced he would not do, only to reverse course hours later — could be just the first in waves of pressure on him from the Left.

Biden campaigned on a platform of bipartisanship, and he has so far resisted demands from liberal activists on a range of policy issues.

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