Biden reaches out to Republican leaders for support of border bill

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

May 20, 2024 9:36 PM EDT Updated 12 hours ago


WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Monday urged Republican leaders in the House and Senate to support a revived bipartisan bill on border security, even as House Speaker Mike Johnson declared the bill would be "dead on arrival." Democrats are again trying to pass the Border Act, which they say would reform U.S. asylum laws, hire thousands of border agents and help curtail fentanyl smuggling.

Record numbers of migrants have been caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border since Biden took office in 2021 and border security has become one of the leading presidential campaign issues ahead of the Nov. 5 election that will pit Biden against former President Donald Trump.

In February, a version of the bill stalled in the Senate after Trump told Republicans not to support it even though it contained several border-security measures they had sought. Biden and other Democrats said Trump undercut the bill in order to keep the border debate alive during the campaign.

Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday announced the Senate would seek to pass the new bill this week, after which the White House said it strongly supported the legislation.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-reaches-out-republican-leaders-support-border-bill-2024-05-21/

[Mike Nelson]

1. Biden should...

... mention this at every appearance. Fix the border, keep the Government out of the bedroom, and keep America's economy strong!

[riversedge]

2. Biden keeps trying to pass the bill. try try try.

[riversedge]

3. "Should it reach the House, the bill would be dead on arrival," Johnson and other Republicans said in a statement.

..........In the president's calls to Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Biden asked congressional Republicans to "stop playing politics" and quickly pass the legislation, the White House said.
Before the president reached out, leaders of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives called the bill politically motivated.
"Should it reach the House, the bill would be dead on arrival," Johnson and other Republicans said in a statement.

[Meadowoak]

4. Why, so Lucy can move the football again?

[Midnight Writer]

5. It is so we can get Republicans on record voting against a bill they negotiated and pushed for.

Just three months ago many Republicans were touting this border bill as an accomplishment. Then TeamTrump got involved and every single Republican decided they were against it. The strategy is to blame the Democrats for "the open Border".

Of course it will not pass. But at least the onus of blame will be shown to be, with recorded votes, on the Republican side.

If we can't get the legislative victory, we should at least go for the political victory.

Just because the Republicans are too cowed to do their jobs doesn't mean Democrats should stop trying to do their jobs.

[Meadowoak]

6. Nobody will know, except us on DU, the Republican owned media won't

Mention it.

[Midnight Writer]

7. I reckon we shouldn't even bother trying, then. Game over, man.

[Meadowoak]

8. That's not what I'm saying, but the media is a huge problem for us.

[Midnight Writer]

9. Absolutely. Trump tells Big Oil that he will deregulate their industry if they cough up a billion bucks.

And it doesn't even get a mention in "mainstream" media.

TFG campaigns on mass detentions, detention camps, personal revenge, locking up political opponents, using DOJ as his personal law firm, fealty to dictators, pledges to hire convicted felons in his Administration.

And the "mainstream" media shrugs it off.

I am under no illusion that the Fourth Estate is our friend.

[Torchlight]

10. I think he's ensuring as many as possible realize the GOP, and only the GOP

will stand in the way of a border bill that the GOP actually wants. Biden, without effort, just offered the American people a front-row seat to watch GOP obstruction for its own sake.

[jimfields33]

11. Insightful