Moderates were incensed. “Why would you include that information in there if you weren’t trying to bring it down?” asked one who’d been privy to negotiations, according to Politico. Rep. Tom MacArthur reportedly chastised Meadows, calling the betrayal “bullshit.” Meadows claimed he hadn’t known about the e-mail, but the damage was done. That afternoon, every Republican involved in drafting the bill voted it down. “Our members are angry, very angry. Everybody. Across the spectrum,” a Republican leader told Politico. “People feel like they’ve been betrayed in this process. They feel like this has been ordeal. No one is happy.”

Least happy of all, perhaps, are the hundreds of thousands of people whose lives hang in the balance while the president’s views veer toward the extreme, and congressional Republicans fail to agree on even the basics of what an immigration plan should address. Recipients of Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are still in limbo, thinly protected by an injunction Judge Nicholas Garaufis of Brooklyn issued Tuesday. Under the terms of the order, the White House must uphold DACA as it stood under Obama, but isn’t bound to accept new applications, and can address renewals on a case-by-cases basis. “It is impossible to understand the full consequences of a decision of this magnitude,” Garaufis said of ending the program, emphasizing that the number of Dreamers losing protected status could skyrocket when the program ends in March.

Garaufis, per the Times, has repeatedly chastised Trump for his “recurring redundant drumbeat of anti-Latino commentary,” an argument similar to the one used by 17 states in a lawsuit over the president’s family-separation policy. (The suit claims the policy is motivated by “animus” toward Latinos.) Though a judge ruled on Tuesday that the government must re-unite children with their parents within 30 days—14 days if the children are five or younger—thousands are still in limbo. In Texas, toddlers are facing immigration proceedings alone. “We were representing a 3-year-old in court recently who had been separated from the parents,” Lindsay Toczylowski, executive director of Immigrant Defenders Law Center in Los Angeles, told the Texas Tribune. “And the child—in the middle of the hearing—started climbing up on the table.”