Congressional Democrats appear to be reneging on promises to force a vote by the end of the year to pass legislation protecting undocumented residents who were brought to the United States as children, despite ongoing pressure from the immigrant rights movement and increasing public support for reinstating such protections.

After the Trump administration announced in September that it would phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program with no fix for those who would lose their protected status as a result, Democratic lawmakers answered the wave of actions from immigrant advocates with a pledge to vote on the Dream Act before the New Year, in spite of holding a minority of seats in both bodies of Congress.

“I had [House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi tell me to my face that she would get this done by the end of the year,” Adrian Reyna, a 26-year-old who came to the U.S. from Mexico at age 11, told the Washington Post. Pelosi told reporters earlier this month, “we will not leave here without a DACA fix,” referring to the rapidly approaching holiday recess.

Reyna, membership director of United We Dream—the youth-led immigrant group that has organized ongoing national protests—said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) “looked into the eyes of our members and said he’s committed to getting this done. They cannot just tell us they are going to do something and then just drop out.”

Although members of United We Dream and other advocates have maintained a presence on Capitol Hill and targeted lawmakers across party lines, Republican leaders in Congress have given full priority to passing a tax plan that will give tax breaks to corporations and wealthy Americans at the expense of working families, and Democrats now seem unwilling to withhold support for a government spending bill to force a Dream Act vote.