The Senate's bipartisan budget deal has left out help for young immigrants brought into the United States as children.
The plan would avert a government shutdown, but it wouldn't offer any peace of mind to hundreds of thousands of so-called Dreamers, who benefit from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that will end in March.
"If you look at them, they are an excellent example of what a good American citizen is," Angel Reyes Rivas says of his fellow DACA recipients. "It's disappointing because we felt like we had it on the last government shutdown."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, unveiled the latest plan Wednesday. It's expected to pass in the Senate but may face stiffer opposition in the House.
"Our Dreamers hang in in limbo with a cruel cloud of fear and uncertainty above them," says Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader. "The Republican moral cowardice must end."
Pelosi railed against the plan for nearly eight hours on the House floor, demanding a DACA fix.
If Congress doesn't pass a DACA plan, the program will expire on March 5.