'No real chance': McConnell says Senate border deal is going nowhere
ABC News
The Senate's bipartisan border deal is teetering on collapse Tuesday as many Republicans say they will block the procedural vote set for later this week.
The Senate's bipartisan border deal is teetering on collapse Tuesday as many Republicans say they will block the procedural vote set for later this week -- a frustrating loss for the negotiators who spent months fine-tuning the bill.
"I can't believe this is happening. This is unbelievable," Sen. Chris Murphy, one of the lead negotiators of the bill, said in a Senate floor speech Tuesday.
Murphy and other senators worked for months to negotiate the terms of the $118.28 billion bipartisan national security supplemental package, the text of which was released Sunday night. By Monday night, it was on the brink of collapse as fellow negotiator Sen. James Lankford acknowledged it didn't have the votes for it advance in the Senate in a procedural vote on Wednesday.
"What the hell just happened?" Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, said on the floor.
