Senate nears bipartisan border deal that Trump calls 'disaster'
ABC News
Fresh criticism Monday from former President Donald Trump and other GOP leaders is threatening to derail the border deal as negotiations near the end.
Senate negotiators are racing to put the finishing touches on a national security spending bill they hope can simultaneously fund Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and offer legislative solutions to slow the surge of migrants at the southern border. Yet fresh criticism Monday from former President Donald Trump and other GOP leaders threatened to derail the efforts that the White House is accusing them of treating like a "political football."
Trump on Monday said that "a border bill is not necessary," blasting the ongoing negotiations.
"They are using this horrific Senate Bill as a way of being able to put the BORDER DISASTER onto the shoulders of the Republicans. The Democrats BROKE THE BORDER, they should fix it," Trump posted on his social media network.
On Saturday, at a campaign rally in Nevada, the Republican presidential front-runner seemed to gloat about his efforts to kill the bill.
