White House adviser and First Son-in-Law Jared Kushner headed to Capitol Hill Tuesday, where he met with Republican senators to answer questions about his new immigration plan. And, unsurprisingly, the man who's been trying to frame his political inexperience as an “asset” didn't do a great job. Per a report in The Washington Post, G.O.P. senators present at the staff luncheon said Kushner had trouble answering questions about the proposal, and was frequently interrupted by fellow adviser Stephen Miller to fill in the gaps. “[Kushner's] in his own little world,” one source said. “He didn’t give many details about what was in [his plan]. . . . And there were a number of instances where people had to step in and answer questions because he couldn’t.”

Kushner's immigration plan would overhaul the legal immigration system, keeping the total number of green cards issued the same while prioritizing immigrants based on their skills and educational backgrounds, rather than family ties. Potential immigrants would have to take a civics test before being judged using a merit-based points system. Though Kushner has been toting the plan around town—reportedly with the help of a PowerPoint slideshow that's been described as “laughably simplistic”—he apparently doesn't fare so well when he has to go off-script, even among a friendly G.O.P. crowd. According to the Post, Kushner stumbled over questions asked by Sens. John Cornyn and Susan Collins, which centered on how the plan would deal with undocumented immigrants. Collins reportedly asked about DACA recipients specifically, to which Kushner responded that his plan didn't deal with DACA, and instead was focused on how to “bring people together.” (“I am concerned about the fate of the DACA young people, and they cannot be excluded from any immigration package,” Collins said in a statement to the Post.) While Kushner and the more hard-line Miller's joint appearance at the luncheon was supposed to signify “unity” between the various White House factions, senators present also noted that they didn't exactly see the duo as a united front. “Miller interrupted him a lot,” one source said.

The Post report on the G.O.P. meeting doesn't exactly inspire confidence in Kushner's ability to take on the immigration system—which, of course, he's attempting to handle alongside such other ‘minor’ issues as the opioid crisis, trade, and peace in the Middle East. Though Kushner has reportedly been trying to claim his lack of experience makes him “free of preconceived notions,” his seemingly poor performance Tuesday suggests that he shouldn't be, as Rob Satloff of the Washington Institute described him, quite so “boldly dismissive of expertise.” Indeed, G.O.P. senators are reportedly viewing Kushner's pet immigration plan as dead in the water, unable to garner the Democratic votes needed to pass while not even earning widespread support among the Republican ranks. When asked after the meeting how Republicans could persuade Democrats to pass the plan, Sen. Kevin Cramer responded, “first is getting these guys on board.”

The plan's likely failure won't be a huge surprise; for all his efforts on the policy front, Kushner's main talents seem to be being manipulated by foreign governments and lawmakers who, as one Republican senator told Politico, want “to get his father-in-law” on board. As Politico noted Monday before the failed Senate luncheon, though, apparently that's alright with Kushner, who's set a low bar for himself that aims not so much for success as just failing in an original way. “If we are going to fail, we don’t want to fail doing it the same way it’s been done in the past,” Kushner told Satloff at a recent event. “Hopefully it stimulates discussion and stimulates thought.”

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