The Senate approved a $4.5 billion border funding bill on June 26, setting up a confrontation with House Democrats who passed their own version of the bill the day before.
The decision to pass the Senate bill provoked outrage from other House progressives.
"They falsely claimed all year that the situation at the border was a "manufactured crisis" and denied desperately needed humanitarian funding for months", she said in a statement. "And quite frankly, not to work out a compromise with the Senate, in my mind, is unacceptable".
The episode was a blow to Pelosi and her leadership, and exposed the deep divide between moderates and liberals in her caucus.
The White House said it opposes changes planned by the Democrats.
"Lawmakers had hoped to get a bill to Trump's desk before they leave", The Hill's Jordain Carney reported, "but without an 11th hour agreement, prospects for resolving differences between the Senate and House bills are likely stalled until after the break".
"While there are provisions that I support in the Democratic House bill, including increasing funding for access to health, nutritional, hygiene and sanitation needs for unaccompanied children at the border, (Speaker of the House Nancy) Pelosi's partisan bill falls short", Stefanik wrote in an official statement.
Three moderates were the only House Republicans to back the measure.
The leaders of the House Progressive Caucus, which includes nearly half of House Democrats, immediately issued a statement calling the Senate bill - which had the backing of Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
"We have a significant number", Murphy said. Well, too bad. This is our job.
The Senate rejected the House bill by 55-37.
The GOP-held Senate on Wednesday passed the bipartisan $4.6 billion measure on a sweeping 84-8 vote.
The discussion came soon after Pocan had compared the caucus to child abusers, saying in a tweet, "Since when did the Problem Solvers Caucus become the Child Abuse Caucus?"
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Guy Saint-Jacques, a former Canadian ambassador to China, said Beijing is clearly putting additional pressure on Canada. Trudeau has no meeting with China's President Xi Jinping at the summit to do this but U.S.
"No Republican gets everything they want and no Democrat gets everything they want. Kids are the only ones who could lose today". Other agencies are also overburdened and short of funds, as huge numbers of Central Americans trying to reach USA soil have overwhelmed the system. "More children will die".
Failing to act "would be very bad", said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla.
Thursday's House vote should ease a cash crunch at federal agencies that care for migrants that have flocked over the border in huge numbers seeking asylum. "It's bad now. They're reducing services down to the bare minimum in some of these places", Cole said.
"The United States Senate is not going to pass a border funding bill that cuts the money for (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and the Department of Defense".
Schumer blamed the Trump Administration for conditions at the border, where large numbers of migrants from Central America have overwhelmed U.S. facilities and personnel, resulting in unaccompanied children being held in conditions that visitors have described as inhumane.
He said the Trump administration might make administrative changes reflecting some of the House's demands.
President Trump, who is in Japan for a G20 summit and now has to sign the bill into law, gave the result a thumbs-up.
House Democrats used the tactic in September 2017 to call for a vote on the Dream Act immigration bill.
A source familiar with the negotiations said Pelosi secured from Pence a promise to use administrative direction to accomplish two of the House goals: that members would be notified within 24 hours of the death of a child in USA custody, and that a 90-day time limit would be put on children spending time in the temporary housing centers known as "influx facilities".
It includes rules allowing Democrat politicians to visit the border shelters with just two days notice.
"This bipartisan package will authorize critical policy aimed strengthening our military, supporting our troops, and enhancing our national security to meet the challenges we face both now and in the future", Romney said.
This article was written by Erica Werner, Mike DeBonis and Rachael Bade, reporters for The Washington Post.
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