Republicans Flail On Bipartisan Border Deal After Trump Orders Them To Reject It
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The bill will be ready for a Senate vote as early as next week. The GOP has to decide: obey Trump or tackle the border crisis they've been screaming about.
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are flailing over how to proceed with tackling the border crisis — an issue they have been demanding action on — after Donald Trump this week personally directed them to reject any bipartisan border deal because he doesn’t want President Joe Biden to get a win ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Republicans have been hammering Biden for months over the massive surge of migration at the U.S.-Mexico border. They have insisted that border policy changes be attached to a broader package of aid for Ukraine and Israel. So, for months, a bipartisan group of senators has been attempting to craft legislation that includes all of these pieces.
That package is “extremely close” to being done and will be ready for a Senate floor as early as next week, a Senate source familiar with negotiations told HuffPost on Thursday.
All that’s left to do is “tying up the loose ends and finishing the appropriations,” said this Senate source, who requested anonymity due to the extremely delicate nature of talks.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), the lead Democratic negotiator on the deal, said as much on Thursday, too. “It’s 95% done,” he told reporters.
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