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Schumer announces Senate to vote this week on previously blocked bipartisan border bill
Source: CNN
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, attempting to put political pressure on Republicans, announced Sunday that the chamber will vote this week on a long-negotiated bipartisan border bill that Republicans blocked earlier this year.
The New York Democrat called the legislation a tough, serious-minded, and critically, bipartisan proposal to secure our border in a Dear Colleague letter.
The initial package, which included tough border provisions and foreign aid to US allies, was blocked in February by the Senate amid a torrent of attacks by top House Republicans and former President Donald Trump, who is making the border a central campaign issue in his race for the White House. The Senate passed a separate foreign aid package last month.
Back in January, the former President urged Congressional Republicans to kill the bipartisan bill, telling the world proudly to blame it on me. The American people do not have the luxury of playing partisan blame games. They want bipartisan action to secure our border, Schumer said in the letter, which did not specify when the bill would be taken up.
The New York Democrat called the legislation a tough, serious-minded, and critically, bipartisan proposal to secure our border in a Dear Colleague letter.
The initial package, which included tough border provisions and foreign aid to US allies, was blocked in February by the Senate amid a torrent of attacks by top House Republicans and former President Donald Trump, who is making the border a central campaign issue in his race for the White House. The Senate passed a separate foreign aid package last month.
Back in January, the former President urged Congressional Republicans to kill the bipartisan bill, telling the world proudly to blame it on me. The American people do not have the luxury of playing partisan blame games. They want bipartisan action to secure our border, Schumer said in the letter, which did not specify when the bill would be taken up.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/19/politics/senate-bipartisan-border-bill-vote-schumer/index.html
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Schumer announces Senate to vote this week on previously blocked bipartisan border bill (Original Post)
brooklynite
May 19
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Cha
(299,265 posts)1. Good Luck!!
peppertree
(22,078 posts)2. But will Sinema give us a happy ending...or another schlocky melodrama?
Stay tuned.
CaliforniaPeggy
(150,292 posts)3. That is an interesting turn of events.
So I'm wondering: Who's behind it, and Why now?
riversedge
(70,966 posts)4. Will Trump announce to world that Republicans are to say NO!!?
I think yes.
msongs
(67,764 posts)5. bring it up EVERY week til the election nt
IronLionZion
(45,886 posts)6. When GOP senators vote against it
we can use it against them in campaign ads.
sl8
(14,620 posts)7. K & R nt
ZonkerHarris
(24,461 posts)8. make them vote no on the record. bazinga!