The White House is highlighting that McConnell also blames Trump for tanking the bipartisan border security bill.
Senators had unveiled a bipartisan bill to address border security while sending billions in aid to help Ukraine fight off the Russian invasion. But Republicans tanked the package, co-authored by Sen. James Lankford , at Trump’s urging.
Speaker Mike Johnson eventually advanced a series of separate foreign aid packages that stripped out the border provisions originally requested by Republicans, and Biden signed the package into law on Wednesday. Earlier in the week, after the Senate had also passed the House bills, McConnell publicly stated that “our nominee for president did not seem to want us to do anything at all” regarding the border, as it might help President“This week, Sen. McConnell explicitly said why the toughest, fairest bipartisan border legislation in modern American history is stalled,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement.
Bates additionally claimed that Biden has “turned around the soaring violent crime rate he inherited” from Trump, even as “80% of House Republicans propose defunding the police by cutting the COPS program.”“President Biden will not allow extreme Republican officials to endanger American communities,” Bates closed. “He will keep fighting for the toughest, fairest border security deal in decades.”
After signing the foreign aid package into law, Biden personally remarked that he would continue to seek a bipartisan accord in addressing security at the southern border.
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