Republicans Agonize Over Supporting Bipartisan Border Bill They Insisted On
A bipartisan bill to address the surge of migrants at the southern border is sowing discord within the Senate GOP as Trump urges them to kill it.
Senate Republicans are in deep distress over whether to support a plan to fix the migrant crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border that includes key concessions they had demanded from Democrats months ago in exchange for approving new U.S. aid to Ukraine.
The bipartisan legislation is expected to be unveiled as early as Friday, giving senators time to review the text before a planned procedural vote next week. But with former President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and much of the right whipping opposition to the bill before it has even been unveiled, its future in the Senate appears to be in serious jeopardy.
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Republicans have for years called on President Joe Biden to address the crisis on the border, insisting that the elevated flow of migrants is an urgent national security threat and calling for legislation to address it. But with an agreement in sight after four months of negotiations, many in the GOP now say that Congress doesn’t need to pass new legislation and that Biden ought to simply take executive action to fix it. Some have openly admitted they don’t want to give Biden a victory ahead of the November presidential election by letting him take off the table an issue on which he rates poorly among the electorate.
Just disgusting. Completely, utterly and horribly disgusting. Even worse is the fact that if the bill doesn't pass all the rightwing talking heads and every single politician will use it as a stumping point. Especially if Biden takes executive action at the border they'll say it's because he couldn't make a deal, even though he did.
May bees and wasps find their genitals in need of stinging.
Just wasps, no need for bees to be harmed in the process.
Can we douse them in pheromones to make the murder hornets decide to go after them (and not bees?)
May bees constantly land on their genitals and wander around in super itchy ways
Fret not, only some bee species will die after stinging; it just depends on their stinger shape. Bumblebees have smooth stingers, so they could happily pierce nutsack all day without any harm coming to them.
They lose that exchange of wits.
Bidens just got to show open hands and say, we gave you the concessions you asked for, i said id close the border that day, i was ready to close the border and you said no, choosing politicking over security.
And then spit a fat wad of chew spit in Ted Cruz's face.
He'd win reelection right there.
But the people voting against him don't care about what makes sense
Yeah. Biden and the Democrats were literally proposing to close the border to asylum seekers completely until requests go down to get Ukraine aid, which is extreme to me but it was pretty much what Repubs were harping for for months.
To go and kiss Inmate #P01135809's feet now is clear evidence they're not even trying to solve the problem they were drumming up a storm for, and Biden is more serious about the border than Inmate #P01135809.
Now you discover why they’re back pedaling: It makes Biden look bad.
I don't get it. They don't really care about any kind of factual reality, so why not pass the deal and declare it as a big win where they forced the dems to heel? That it was their deal and the feckless progressives couldn't stop it from happening? Their cultists will believe whatever nonsense Newsmax feeds them, won't they?
It's not JUST that they wanted the political win. It's that they wanted the win AND to hurt people.
IMO, they don’t want to take it off the table. They use drama to stir up their voters. If “they” solve the crisis on the border, now they can’t use the “boarder crisis” as a tool anymore.
Just my guess.
Because Biden will have signed it and it shows how he's willing to do whatever it takes to get shit done.
I think the “even worse” part is that people will believe whatever the right wing talking heads say, regardless of the facts.
Everyone needs to call them out for their inaction