Republicans are expected to again block the bipartisan measure from advancing.For the second time in three months, a border security measure negotiated earlier this year by a bipartisan group of senators failed to advance in the Senate.
"If Republicans were truly serious about calling the situation at the border an emergency, they shouldn't delay any longer. You can't call something an emergency one day and then suddenly kick the can down the road the next day," Schumer said. "The bill is no longer a bill and now it's just a prop," Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., who co-wrote the bill alongside Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy and Arizona Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. "And that's been my frustration. We wrote it to be a bill to try to actually solve the problem."
That package was originally meant to be tied to a broader national security supplemental that included aid to foreign allies Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan in an effort to secure the necessary Republican votes to pass foreign aid. In floor remarks Wednesday, Murphy, the top Democratic negotiator offered curt analysis of why the bill failed.
Democrats for their part say that the bipartisan bill is a serious proposal crafted with Republican input, and that Republicans are too easily swayed by Trump.
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