Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz He said Tuesday that the Senate’s border bill was a fiasco from the beginning, and he reinforced his call for new leadership in the Senate Republican caucus.
Cruz told Fox News that by calculating the number of illegal immigrants the law would allow per day, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. James Lankford (R-Ky.) (R-Okla.), and other Republicans who portrayed themselves as reassured by the law. That’s the bulk of President Biden’s numbers on the current border crisis.
“Policy-wise, it’s a disaster. And it’s a political disaster. Policy-wise, this bill is terrible. This is absolutely. It’s the bill that Chuck Schumer wanted, it just doesn’t secure the border. “It’s not about securing borders. It’s about protecting borders.” “It was created to further deteriorate the border,” he said.
Cruz said the bill, authored by Lankford and Sens. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, “codifies” Biden’s penchant for a porous border. , said it would “normalize” 5,000 illegal immigrants per day.
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“That equates to 1.8 million people a year, about 6 million illegal immigrants over the three years of the Biden administration… So the stupid Republican proposal would pay for two-thirds of the border invasions that Biden authorized. “It was meant to be,” he said.
On “Hannity,” Cruz reiterated his view that McConnell may need to be replaced at the top of Republican leadership.
Mr. McConnell appeared to concede defeat on the bill just recently, but when asked about Mr. Cruz, he deadpanned to reporters: “I think it’s time for him to resign,” and added, “Senator Cruz.” I think we can all agree that I’m not a fan.” [of mine]. ”
In his first press conference, Cruz insisted that other senators who surrounded him at the time also supported the change in leadership.
Mr. Cruz said he was particularly upset by a provision in the border bill that would direct lawsuits against the law to be filed in the decidedly liberal District of Columbia rather than in Texas, as is recent practice.
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“I have to say this to the Senate Republican leadership. I told them months ago … and they continued down this road, and it ended up being a box canyon where the kamikaze pilots crashed into the wall. It was a disaster,” he said. He said.
“Who won this battle? His name is Charles Schumer. Chuck Schumer did this. He knew he was going to fail. He wanted him to fail. It is.”
Cruz argued that Democratic leaders would be happy to see the bill die because it would provide political protection to lawmakers facing re-election in November.
“The purpose of this bill was to make sure that every Democrat running for the Senate and every Democrat running for the House could stand up and self-righteously say, ‘I wanted to protect the border.’ “But it means the Republican Party won’t allow that,” he argued.
In contrast, Cruz said, the person who truly represents the Democratic Party’s position on border security is Joan Boada, an undocumented immigrant who was released without bail after being accused of assaulting an NYPD police officer. .
The failure of the Republican attempt to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas may mean that the inevitable upcoming special election to fill the Republican vacancy has simply been postponed. No, host Sean Hannity added.
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has earmarked a special election for former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s right-wing Bakersfield seat in mid-May and former Rep. Bill Johnson’s seat in the Buckeye State along the Ohio River for June 11. It is scheduled to be filled by the day.
Former Rep. George Santos (RN.Y.) was expelled late last year, and his seat will remain vacant for just one week before a special election is held on Long Island.
One Democrat, former New York state Rep. Brian Higgins, resigned last week, but his Buffalo-area seat has not yet been given a special election date.
Hannity said he was optimistic about the outcome of the special election and the return of the only member of Congress who did not vote, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana). If he is absent for health reasons, the next impeachment attempt will have a different outcome.
He noted that Rep. Blake Moore of Utah, vice chair of the House Republican Conference, was recorded as a “no vote” because the rules allow him to reintroduce the resolution as a member of the leadership team. He pointed out that.
“Republicans will have a chance to secure a stronger majority, and hopefully they will.”
