Cuellar: GOP lawmakers ‘irresponsible’ to reject border bill when ‘nobody has seen the text’

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) said it would be “irresponsible” to reject the bipartisan border bill “without reading it.” post Saturday on Platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

“The crisis at our southern border must not be about partisan politics. The entire country is finally beginning to feel the burden that border communities have felt for years,” Cuellar’s post reads. “It would be irresponsible to reject a bipartisan border security bill without reading it. There is a crisis at our border that demands a solution right now.”

“Democrats and Republicans must come together to get the job done,” Cuellar continued.

Cuellar also included a clip from a recent interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” in which he questioned how anyone could oppose a bipartisan border bill that they haven’t read.

“No one has seen the document,” Cuellar said. Said.

House Republicans appear to be trying to kill any chance of a border bill, even though they have previously wanted changes to border and immigration policies tied to Ukraine.

In a letter to Dear Colleagues last Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said that the Senate bill on border security and aid to Ukraine would pass the House if the proposed terms so far are accurate. “It will be invalidated upon arrival,” he said. .

“Since the Senate does not seem to be able to reach an agreement, I wanted to provide a quick update on additional provisions and borders,” he wrote. “If the rumors about the contents of the draft were true, it would have been dead on arrival in the House of Commons anyway.”

House Republicans have recently painted their Senate colleagues as traitors who want to compromise with Democrats.

“This is why we won’t listen to Senate Republicans,” Rep. Byron Donald (R-Fla.) said in an interview on Fox News. “What they did in the Senate was yet another dirty deal to save face for the Democrats and give Republican leadership the power to say they did something. And if this becomes law, the U.S. People will soon realize that nothing has changed except for politicians patting themselves on the back.”

“We’re not interested in that,” Donald added.