Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Tuesday in an exclusive interview with Sirius Kentucky) and said the party’s leader ignored even the border bill. He put on the table a clause linking aid to Ukraine with border indicators, saying the “first priority” was aid to Ukraine, not securing borders.
“My proposal was to tie the funding specifically to border indicators… [Biden] Let’s say $5 billion a month. ” said Johnson.
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin speaks during a hearing of the Senate Homeland, Governmental Affairs, Regulations, and Government Committee on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 in Washington, DC. The commander of the D.C. National Guard said it took more than that. It took three hours for military leaders to approve a request to send troops to the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, despite the Capitol Police chief’s “desperate” pleas for immediate emergency assistance. . (Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Unbeknownst to us, Leader McConnell told chief negotiator James Lankford that enforcement mechanisms were not even on the table when it came to border benchmark standards,” he said. Ta.
Mr Johnson said Mr McConnell’s failure to link aid to Ukraine to border metrics was “the reason so many of us are speaking out against leader McConnell in earnest, and his arbitrary That approach, frankly, is what led to this fiasco for the American people, not extracting border security from this issue.” It’s an agreement with Ukraine. ”
Johnson said McConnell “just betrayed all of us and didn’t even bring it to the table.” ”
“Why not? Because the first priority was funding for Ukraine,” he said.
The Senate passed a $95 billion bill Tuesday that would give Ukraine about $60 billion, Israel $14 billion and Taiwan and other East Asian allies about $5 billion. An earlier proposal would have included money to secure the border negotiated by McConnell, Lankford and Democrats, but Republican opponents in the House and Senate killed it and Chuck Schumer Senate Majority Leader (D-N.Y.) urged the bill to be introduced without funding. Border security.
Johnson said the border provisions negotiated by McConnell, Lankford and Democrats would weaken existing presidential powers at the border and allow thousands of illegal immigrants to enter the country before Biden halts the processing of asylum claims. He pointed out that he would forgive her.
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), the lead Republican negotiator on the border foreign aid package, speaks with reporters outside the Capitol building in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. A bipartisan border agreement could fail because: Former President Donald Trump’s resistance. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
“Any weakening of the president’s powers under current law is worse than doing nothing,” Johnson said. “Passing that bill would have been worse than doing nothing.”
Mr Johnson added:
All I can say is that his top priority was funding Ukraine. I can’t explain it. That makes no sense to me at all. Americans strongly support border closures because there is no border policy, border closures are a clear and present danger, and because border closures facilitate multibillion-dollar business models. Most evil people on, drug, human and sex traffickers. That’s what the American people want to see. We can’t explain it because they expect us to. I’m just telling you what happened.
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