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NEW: Senate schedules votes beginning at 2:30 p.m. on these four immigration proposals in this order 👇
SENATE immigration update:

McCain-Coons fails 52-47
(DACA fix + border security)

Toomey plan fails 54-45
(Sanctuary cities cutoff)
NEXT UP: Senate votes on the Rounds-King compromise.

Cotton trashes it as the "olly olly oxen free" bill.

Rounds, the lead GOP sponsor, responds: "I enjoy the humor that my colleague from Arkansas has expressed."
NEW: Senate rejects the Rounds-King bipartisan Dreamer fix + $25 billion for border security by a vote of 54-45, short of the 60 needed for passage.
Senate will vote next on @ChuckGrassley plan that mirrors Trump's four pillars. It'll fail because Democrats oppose the legal immigration cuts to family/diversity visas.
.@SenSchumer: "There is only one reason the Senate was unable to reach a bipartisan solution to DACA: President Trump. President Trump created this problem by ending the DACA program."
Grassley/Trump immigration proposal goes down big with a vote of 39-60 in the Senate.

That's all she wrote. No Dreamer fix.
And remember, the Senate is more pro-immigration chamber. Imagine how this plays in the House.
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