As in all else, they wrote the thing with zero Democratic input, so it's a 100% Republican bill.
Because it funds the Wall and for other reasons the Democrats were united against it, but the Republicans, had they been united among themselves, could easily have sent this to the senate.
The more conservative of the Republicans - and they are all conservatives, even the moderates - voted overwhelmingly against it.
House rejects GOP immigration bill, ignoring Trump
The Republican-led House rejected a far-ranging immigration bill on Wednesday despite its eleventh-hour endorsement by President Donald Trump, as the gulf between the GOP's moderate and conservative wings proved too deep for leaders to avert an election-year display of division on the issue.
The vote was 301-121, with nearly half of Republicans opposing the measure.
The depth of GOP opposition was an embarrassing showing for Trump and a rebuff of House GOP leaders, who'd postponed the vote twice and proposed changes in hopes of driving up the vote for a measure that seemed doomed from the start.
The tally also seemed to empower GOP conservatives on the fraught issue.
Last week a more conservative package was defeated but 193 Republicans voted for it.
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