Senate Republicans are vowing to block a bipartisan border security deal from moving forward on the floor, three months after Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) hailed it as a “huge success,” reflecting the rising partisan tensions of an election year. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) plans to hold a vote to advance it Thursday, but no Republican senator has yet said they will vote for it, even though it was endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. McConnell, who helped negotiate the border security package earlier this year when it was attached to $61 billion in Ukraine aid, called the Democrats’ plan to bring it back to the floor “a gimmick.” And he said it has no chance of passing the Senate or the House. Republicans close ranks against Senate border security deal
I find it really odd that some of the Republicans who helped write the bill are now vowing to vote no on it
That is very odd and would be a real puzzler were it not for the tangerine complexioned one standing just off stage directing his invertebrate minions
Republicans were incredibly dumb on this one. It was originally supposed to be tied to Ukraine and Israel aid, they could have claimed a great victory by getting their partisan agenda passed with the aid bill, which has bipartisan popularity. It was Republicans 2 - Democrats 1. Morons. This the republican MO ... not fix the problems when they have the chance so they can complain and campaign on them. They did the same with Obamacare.
Bitch about border, participate in a bipartisan effort to at least do SOMETHING about it, then torpedo that. Hypocritical ass kissers.
It’s not odd to me. They inevitably these days put party over country. See, for example, Niki Haley: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/politics/nikki-haley-donald-trump?cid=ios_app “Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is supporting former President Donald Trump’s 2024 bid, she said Wednesday in her first public remarks since exiting the Republican presidential primary more than two months ago.”
Just following the dictates of their Dear Leader. If the Democrats and the Biden campaign had an ounce of common sense they would follow the roadmap of Tom Souzzi who won the special election for the House seat in New York formerly held by George Santos. Rather than running away from or just ignoring the crisis at the border they should be emphasizing that the Republicans let by the defeated former president are blocking a vote on the strongest border security bill before Congress in decades. Could how Democrat Tom Suozzi campaigned on immigration help his party win nationally? "Ducking the issue is a mistake. Suozzi hit it head on," one strategist said. Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., appearing on a press briefing Wednesday with Democratic strategists, called Suozzi's victory "a sign that the best defense is a strong offense … speaking right in front of it directly through the center and talking about not just border security, but opening up pathways to legal migration … is an argument that the American people will embrace," Espaillat said. Facing attacks from his opponent Mazi Pilip over what she called Democrats' failed border policies, Suozzi stressed during his campaign that he supported both tightening immigration laws and finding a bipartisan compromise, including supporting a failed deal recently announced in the Senate.
