House Republican says he won't accept a border deal because it may help Biden politically
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Fox News blasts Republicans for killing "strongest" border bill
Chief Political Analyst hits out at Congress for so far failing to pass funding for border security and aid for Ukraine.
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Fox News Blasts Republicans for Killing 'Strongest' Border Bill
Published Feb 15, 2024 at 5:40 AM ESTUpdated Feb 15, 2024 at 5:42 AM ESTHouse Votes To Impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
The Chief Political Analyst at Fox News has criticized hardline Republicans for killing a border bill negotiated in the Senate.
"I think these are a couple of issues that put Republicans in peril of looking like literally a do-nothing Congress," Brit Hume told the station on Wednesday, referring to the border security bill shot down by the House and the potential rejection of funding for Ukraine.
The Context
The GOP-led House struck down the $118 billion bill in the Senate on February 7, with conservative hardliners arguing the legislation does not go far enough in its efforts to end illegal immigration.
A bill of around $95.3 billion in Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan was approved in a vote in the Senate on Tuesday, but House Speaker Mike Johnson has said it won't make it to the House floor.
The package includes $9.15 billion in humanitarian aid to give to conflict zones like Gaza, the West Bank and Ukraine.
Hume argued Republicans were "in danger of losing the advantage they have vis à vis Biden on the issue of the border and on the issue of Ukraine funding, Israel funding, funding to defend Taiwan because they are refusing to act on these measures that would deal with that..."
Newsweek has approached Speaker Johnson's office for comment via an email outside of working hours.
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In a statement on Monday, Johnson said: "[In] the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters."
Texas National Guard troops try to untangle an immigrant caught in razor wire after he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into El Paso, Texas on January 31 from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Republican hardliners said a deal... MoreJOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES
The following day, President Joe Biden urged Johnson to bring the bill to the House so it could be passed. "I call on the speaker to let the full House speak its mind and not allow a minority of the most extreme voices in the House to block this bill even from being voted on," the president said.
"This bipartisan bill sends a clear message to Ukrainians and to our partners and to our allies around the world—America can be trusted, America can be relied upon and America stands up for freedom," Biden continued. "We stand strong for our allies, we never bow down to anyone, and certainly not to Vladimir Putin."
What's Next?
Johnson and Republican hardliners have demanded the foreign aid package include funding for border security. They rejected the $118 billion aid package, including $20 billion for securing the U.S.-Mexico border, brought by a group of Senate Republicans and Democrats last week.
One again, this issue is the fault of decades of inaction. Congress is a mess, especially the Republican led house.
Bipartisan bill comes up and is ok'd by the very same Republicans who talked mad shyt about a "border crises". Trump says dump it, now it's gone.
This is the fault of the Republicans and to argue otherwise is to admit to retardation.
Bipartisan bill comes up and is ok'd by the very same Republicans who talked mad shyt about a "border crises". Trump says dump it, now it's gone.
This is the fault of the Republicans and to argue otherwise is to admit to retardation.
I wish all bad things in life on this ultra-c00n.
Hey, instead of being angry at me, maybe tell Biden to be angry at the Republicans. He's the one pretending they're reasonable actors.STFU
Shout out to Sleepy JoeOh u don’t like that bill!! The one you put together
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@PeteButtigieg on the GOP's cynical border sabotage:
"You've got the Congressional GOP, talking about the border, every chance they got. So you would think that they would be interested in addressing it. And yet, when [there was] a bipartisan bill put together by one of the most conservative members of the Senate and Democrats...it looked like there was going to be a chance to do something real, with real resources at the border. Only for Donald Trrump, who's not even an elected official to come in and kill it with the chill that he put on Congressional Republicans. So yeah, we can either solve problems or have them be political footballs."
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@PeteButtigieg on the GOP's cynical border sabotage:
"You've got the Congressional GOP, talking about the border, every chance they got. So you would think that they would be interested in addressing it. And yet, when [there was] a bipartisan bill put together by one of the most conservative members of the Senate and Democrats...it looked like there was going to be a chance to do something real, with real resources at the border. Only for Donald Trrump, who's not even an elected official to come in and kill it with the chill that he put on Congressional Republicans. So yeah, we can either solve problems or have them be political footballs."
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Barely any difference between you him and Tariq
Maddow on Britt’s rebuttal: She was one of the senators who was involved in the negotiations to create a border bill. She helped create the bill. And then voted against it when Trump called on Republicans to pull the plug on the bill that they themselves negotiated