Opinion | The ticking time bomb still threatening the big climate deal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Immigration amendments are unrelated to the climate package, which includes hundreds of billions of dollars for transitioning to green energy, extending Affordable Care Act subsidies for millions, negotiating down prescription drug prices, reducing the deficit and more.
44% : Such a poison pill amendment "functionally ends asylum," Kerri Talbot, deputy director of the Immigration Hub, told me.
43% : It would further weaken our already wavering commitment to asylum seeking or worsen our immigration system in other ways.
31% : And that would be awful policy: It indefensibly ties border management to covid for an indeterminate period.
19% : "Adoption of amendments that would end access to asylum or expand Trump's border wall will not repair our broken immigration and will put reconciliation at risk," Menendez's statement said.

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