Senate negotiators defend bipartisan border deal under fire from House GOP

The three senators who negotiated a bipartisan bill that would beef up border security and immigration enforcement are on Monday defending the package.

The three senators who negotiated a bipartisan bill that would beef up border security and immigration enforcement while authorizing more assistance to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine on Monday defended the package after House Republicans -- led by Speaker Mike Johnson -- are pushing to squash the deal before it even gets to the lower chamber.

Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., 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.

Hours after the text's release, Johnson shot it down, saying in a statement that the bill is "dead on arrival" and "even worse than we expected, and won't come close to ending the border catastrophe the President created."

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said the legislation will not even receive a vote in the House.