Republican Senator Gives Away the Game on Why They Killed Border Deal

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Republican Senator Gives Away the Game on Why They Killed Border Deal
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If the Dems agreed to a Republican law, the Republicans would probably filibuster their own law.

That is what happened here. Republicans came to the table and said “we will give you Ukraine aid if we get a border deal”. Biden undercut progressives and started making offers that Republicans wanted for Ukraine aid and to put his name on the border deal. So Republicans took their ball and went home.

Right, the entire point was to make their fake border crisis seem legitimate by placing it in the same rhetorical box as a genocide in Ukraine. And super Saiyan Biden called their bluff like a boss.

There was an amendment to Obamacare that was almost exactly that. It was hilarious, except for how they spun it for the next decade.