When one asks what’s killing the GOP’s ability to advance their immigration agenda, it’s clear the call is coming from inside the House
Republican lawmakers in the House are once again at each other’s throats, this time over their efforts to secure hardline border and immigration reform.
On Friday, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) skewered former President Donald Trump — and members of his own party — for failing to secure the border during his own time in office during an interview on Fox Business.
“President Trump failed, along with Republicans … they failed in 2018 to actually move a border security bill to tighten this so that we weren’t dealing with this crisis right now, they failed to build the wall,” Roy said, “this stuff matters, it adds up.”
During a heated floor debate on Thursday, Roy also expressed his frustrations with his caucus. “It doesn’t matter who is sitting in the speaker’s seat or who has the majority. We keep doing the same stupid stuff,” he said, lambasting a proposed resolution that would extend government funding through early March. The bill passed and was signed by President Biden on Friday.
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On Friday, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) skewered former President Donald Trump — and members of his own party — for failing to secure the border during his own time in office during an interview on Fox Business.
Trump has been calling Republicans who support a proposed border deal that is being negotiated in the Senate “stupid,” as a source familiar told Rolling Stone, and complaining that approving the package would hand Biden a victory ahead of the two facing off for the 2024 presidency.
Similar sentiment has been expressed in the Senate, where Republican leadership has warned the lower chamber that they’re unlikely to get a better deal on immigration, even if Trump wins in 2024.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) threatened to repeat recent history earlier this week and introduce a motion to vacate against Johnson if he moved forward with Friday’s resolution, on grounds that she opposed providing additional aid to Ukraine and that the package lacked sufficient increased border measures.
On Thursday, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) pushed back on his colleague’s efforts to tank long-coveted, measurable immigration reforms over petty grievances.
If they say they “want meaningful border policy changes, and, for whatever reason they come up with, they don’t want it anymore — that’s gonna be a tough position to stand by,” Crenshaw said.
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