Sen. Ted Cruz was direct last week when the House failed to advance a “bipartisan” package for border security that would have transferred billions of dollars to Israel, the Ukraine, and other countries.
Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, made it clear that he thought Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, ought to step down from the party leadership and maybe even leave the chamber.
Cruz was asked at a news conference if McConnell ought to resign as a result of the deal’s breakdown. McConnell was criticized by conservatives and GOP voters for putting foreign countries ahead of border security.
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“I think it is,” Cruz said, highlighting the fact that McConnell was opposed by all of the Republican senators who supported him. “I think a Republican leader should actually lead this conference and should advance the priorities of Republicans.”
Cruz was joined by Senators. Ron Johnson (R-WI), JD Vance (R-OH), Roger Marshall (R-KN), Rick Scott (R-FL), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Eric Schmitt (R-MO).
When McConnell was then asked to address Cruz’s remarks, he stated the following: “I think we can all agree that Sen. Cruz is not a fan.”
Republican senators engaged in heated negotiations about legislation earlier on Wednesday, behind closed doors. The proposed law sought to provide more aid provisions for nations such as Taiwan, Israel, and the Ukraine, while also allocating funds for border protection.
On the network’s “America’s Newsroom” on Tuesday morning, Fox News Capitol Hill correspondent Aishah Hasnie revealed to the audience that even Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, one of the bill’s co-sponsors, was considering voting against it. The shift in position is related to controversial clauses, such as the continuance of allowing thousands of undocumented immigrants to enter the nation each day despite President Joe Biden’s directive to seal the border.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) pronounced the bill “dead on arrival” in the lower house before to the Senate vote, listing 64 issues he found with it.
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“Last week, in a weak attempt to shift blame for a crisis their own policies created, the White House clumsily tried to claim that House Republicans had an ‘anti-border security record’ by voting to ‘eliminate over 2,000 border patrol agents and erode our capacity to seize fentanyl,’” said the Speaker on his webpage.
“These claims were demonstrably untrue, previously disproven, and underscored the Biden Administration’s failure to secure our southern border, marked by record high crossings in December and widespread national recognition that the situation at our border is a crisis,” he said.
“Since his first day in office, President Biden and his administration have worked to systematically undermine America’s border security,” the Speaker said. “On more than 60 occasions, he has manipulated the federal bureaucracy to open our borders to illegal immigrants, human trafficking, fentanyl, and potential terrorists. The result is a humanitarian and national security catastrophe. The President must use his executive authority to repair what he has broken. I am calling on him to do so. “
While supporting the proposal, McConnell appeared to place the responsibility for its defeat on his own party.
“The reason we’ve been talking about the border is because they [GOP Senators] wanted to,” He stated to Politico, “The reason we ended up where we are is the members decided, since it was never going to become law, they didn’t want to deal with it … I don’t know who is at fault here, in terms of trying to cast public blame.”
