Joe Biden Makes Last Ditch Attempt To Save Border Bill As Path Ahead Unclear

Republicans’ rejection of a bipartisan plan throws the fate of U.S. support for allies up in the air.

President Joe Biden attempted Tuesday to shame congressional Republicans into saving a bipartisan border security and foreign aid package in the Senate even as lawmakers were already looking beyond the deal.

“Republicans have to decide who do they serve: Donald Trump? Or the American people?” Biden said in a televised address from the White House.

Biden said congressional Republicans were bowing to pressure from the former president and vowed he would take the issue to the American people in the fall.

“It looks like they’re caving. Frankly, they owe it to the American people to show some spine and do what they know to be right,” he said.

After its unveiling Sunday evening, the border bill has been subject to increasing criticism from Republicans on the Hill, who said it does not go far enough to secure the border despite making changes in the asylum process and giving additional authority to the president to close the border.