⬆️ The #Senate is fine. It's the #House.
Attached to #Trump's rump as a sump pump 🎶, #MAGA #MikeJohnson is holding #US foreign policy hostage.
The Senate, on the other hand, is ok with a solution for #borderSecurity and #UkraineFunding.
#Biden has also signaled he will use #emergencyPowers to #shutDownBorder
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/28/politics/trump-republican-senate-leadership/index.html
⬆️ #Biden offers fresh assurances he would #shutDownBorder ‘right now’ if Congress sends him a deal.
#Trump has been pressuring #Republicans for weeks to kill the negotiations. He’s loathe to give a win to Biden on the issue.
“A #bipartisan bill would be good for #America and help fix our broken #immigration system…” Biden promised to use “emergency authority to shut down the border… If that bill were law today, I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.”
President Joe Biden is bidding to salvage a border deal in Congress that also would unlock money for Ukraine. He's offering fresh assurances that he would be willing to close the U.S.-Mexico border if lawmakers would only send him a bill to sign. Biden is also trying disarm GOP criticism of his handling of migration at the border. He said at a political event in South Carolina on Saturday that he would shut down the border ’“right now” if Congress passed the proposed deal. The framework hasn’t been formally agreed to by Senate Democrats and Republicans and would face an uncertain future in the GOP-controlled House.
⬆️ #Biden calls #GOP bluff, backs #Senate border deal, vows to #shutDownBorder when overwhelmed
#MakeMAGASmallAgain #MinimizeTheProblem
Tackle what strengthens #FarRight
Take away issues that give them succor.
Earlier, it was an unforced error for Biden to fight with #Texas in election yr when immigration is #GOP issue.
If #UncontrolledMigration is the problem that Far Right feeds on, then stop #IllegalImmigration, yet preserve #US cosmopolitan character.
Ramesh #NotGoingBack