Paul Ryan’s immigration bill set to fail thanks to deeply divided GOP

Published June 27, 2018 11:00am ET



The House is all but guaranteed to reject a broad immigration reform proposal Wednesday from Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., even after delaying the vote from last week in an attempt to win over more votes.

Republicans were scheduled for a late Tuesday afternoon meeting with President Trump to help broker small changes to the proposal to win enough Republican votes to pass. But that meeting was scrapped, and lawmakers, realizing the differences are too vast, have all but given up and acknowledged that they could not find the formula needed to win the 215 votes to pass a bill.

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