In Huge Reversal, GOP Poised To Kill The Border-Ukraine Package It Demanded
WASHINGTON ― Senate Republicans on Monday signaled their plan to filibuster bipartisan legislation that paired tougher border policy with more U.S. aid to Ukraine, a stunning reversal less than 24 hours after the legislation had been unveiled.
With ex-president Donald Trump urging them to kill it, and many on the right up in arms about the proposal, top Senate Republicans emerged from a heated closed-door meeting and said they needed more time to review the agreement, suggesting that a scheduled Wednesday vote to advance the bill is all but doomed to fail.
If they address the border “crisis” now, they have nothing left to run on in November.
Good lord, November is a long ways away
Also, the GOP is in a very serious financial crisis and the only way the Russians are still willing to keep them afloat is if they keep the Ukraine funding stalled...
It’s honestly more to do with the Ukraine aid. Russian influence has become too strong, specifically in regards to Trump.
Look at where Tucker Carlson is… look at what Trump said yesterday about wanting to help Putin. The Republican Party are now open traitors under the control of another nation. Every single one.
Never forget the July 4th GOP Moscow delegation.
The GOP is a compromised foreign intelligence asset.
Senate Republicans threaten to block border security bill they negotiated
In a striking turn of events, Senate Republicans threatened Monday to block a major, bipartisan border security and asylum restrictions package, just one day after their chief negotiator signed off on it.
GOP senators left a special closed-door meeting in the evening predicting that their party would not provide enough votes to move forward with the package on Wednesday, saying the senators agreed they need more time to discuss changes to the bill in the form of amendments.
“I would anticipate Wednesday the cloture vote does not pass,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., the lead GOP negotiator in the border talks, told reporters after the meeting. “People are saying, ‘Hey, I need a lot more time to be able to go through this.’”
Yes America, Republicans oppose anything that is likely to work.
Their entire agenda is designed to crash the country, and then out of that chaos hope voters install a strong man leader who will only need to be ‘dictator for a day’ (ha!). They would rather rule over ashes, than not rule at all. What sad traitors.
By most accounts, the senate GOP leadership wanted both this and aid for Ukraine/Israel.
They delusionally believed their decades of leadership could drag the party with them on a easy win like immigration.
Nope. They ended their own era by enabling Trump to warp the party into its current form. Their own voting base is hostile towards them based on lies and fantasy.
Republicans are opposed to the border security that they demand.
The Senate unveiled its border bill. House Republicans immediately declared it dead.
Senate negotiators released the long-awaited text of their bipartisan border security deal Sunday night, a months-in-the-making effort that would dramatically reorganize the U.S. asylum system while giving the president new emergency powers to limit the flow of migrants into the country.
“We’re radically changing the way we’re spending dollars on border security and the asylum process,” said Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., who led talks alongside Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla. and Chris Murphy, D-Conn.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced plans for a procedural vote on the new border bill Wednesday as part of a broad national security package wrapping the measure together with aid to Ukraine and Israel. His Republican counterpart, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, called on the Senate to “carefully consider the opportunity in front of us and prepare to act.”
I don’t see how Johnson not putting this up for a vote doesn’t backfire on Republicans. One of the biggest tools they have is Democrats being “soft on the border,” now Democrats can say:
We had a bipartisan agreement to pump money into the border and codify more strict immigration policy and Republicans wouldn’t even vote on it due to Trump’s fear of it helping Biden.
Good political messaging can be pitched in an elevator.
MAGA Mike Johnson says it can't be done, because the Republicans have nothing to run on besides fear and hatred of brown people.
Border security is secondary to what Trump wants which is to not vote for this bill. He needs to be able to run on his migrant caravan fear campaign.
