Trump Doubles Down Against Border Deal, Even As Biden Pledges Shutdown
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“CLOSE THE BORDER!” the former president demanded, as he tried to derail a bipartisan deal to make closing it easier.
Former President Donald Trump once again railed against the bipartisan border deal that is being hammered out in the Senate, writing in a Saturday morning Truth Social post: “CLOSE THE BORDER!”
But President Joe Biden has already pledged to “shut down the border” if Congress would pass the border package, praising the deal in a statement meant to help salvage it late Friday.
The yet-to-be-finalized legislation would pair wartime aid to Ukraine and Israel with border and immigration reforms meant to address the record influx of migrants on the southern U.S. border. A bipartisan group of senators has been working to pull it together for months.
Trump appears intent on tanking it. This week, he called the compromise “meaningless” and a “gift to the Radical Left Democrats,” and has directly pressured GOP lawmakers to kill it.
Trump allies, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), have echoed the former president’s statements — prompting Democrats to accuse the Republicans of blatant hypocrisy, considering how long the GOP has spent calling for new border measures.
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