President Biden was dumped for no reason

[Self Esteem]

138. If it was going to be such a win for Democrats, why didn't Biden do it when he had both the House and Senate?

It got to the point that it did because Biden's reelection chances were teetering due to immigration. His team knew the border was being amplified and they couldn't dismiss the issue anymore, despite not spending much time on it during the first two years he was president and had both chambers to work with.

Of course if Biden was able to get a deal through, the optics would have been better than no deal - and Trump knew that.

But it still doesn't change the fact he had three years - two with a Democratic trifecta - to do something about the border and didn't.

Hell, the border bill Biden was willing to sign was right-wing. If this had been proposed during the Trump administration, Democrats likely would have opposed it because it was the most restrictive, anti-immigration border bill that, at the time, was close to passing.

It had zero for a pathway to citizenship (beyond some Afghan refugees). It didn't open up more funding for asylum seekers, though it did make it quicker by creating a more restrictive acceptance criteria. So, it would have meant even fewer asylum seekers would have been allowed into the country.

It was a right-wing bill that Biden desperately backed because he realized the border was becoming a crisis issue and couldn't be ignored anymore.