A “borderline” standoff is approaching between the Senate and House GOP.
The US Senate is poised for a “borderline” standoff with the House of Representatives as it prepares to move forward with legislation despite Speaker Mike Johnson’s warning that the document will likely be “dead” upon arrival in the lower chamber. The Hill journalist Alexander Bolton writes about this in his article.
He notes that Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and his allies are not ignoring Johnson, but they are betting that the legislation will pass the Senate with support from Republicans in the lower house.
Senior aides say they expect the legislation to reach the Senate by the end of next week, although leaders have not yet formally announced a decision on the timing. If Johnson does not pass the bill, House Republicans risk being accused of leaving Ukraine on the table. battle and undermined confidence in America on the part of its allies,” the material says.
According to Democratic analyst Jonathan Cott, there are enough Republicans in the Senate who have been working on this bill for four to five months.
“There were also a lot of Senate Republicans who were there in 2013 when we got 68 votes for bipartisan immigration reform, but saw it die in the House. These people still know we have a problem to solve, and they’re ready.” work on it despite what Donald Trump is trying to do,” Cott said.
At the same time, his “colleague” from the Republican camp, Scott Jennings, believes that it is difficult to defend the border agreement to other critics, since its entire text has not yet been made public.
“There is a danger. If Republicans say that the stated reason why we are rejecting this deal is clearly political, there is an obvious political danger in that,” Jennings says.
In turn, one of the negotiators, Senator Thom Tillis, warns that “if we don’t do this, it won’t get done in the Trump administration because “we won’t have the votes.”
“If we do our job and get the support of key organizations like the Border Patrol Council, go out to law enforcement, talk to Texas officials, do the work, then I believe we will give Speaker Johnson a lot of things to consider trying move it forward,” he said.
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