Democrat says Johnson is Trump’s ‘no boy’ on border talks

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said the bill would be “dead on arrival” if it passes the Senate. Following his remarks, former President Trump criticized border talks as “no good.” “Inside the house.

“Donald Trump said no, so the Speaker said no. The Speaker is not Donald Trump’s child,” Moskowitz told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday.

The text of the border deal being drafted in the House of Lords has not been made public, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson said if what he had heard about the deal was true, it would become null and void once it was introduced in the House of Commons.

At a press conference on Tuesday, he denied that the resistance to the bipartisan deal was an attempt to help President Trump. Mr. Johnson called his accusations of supporting the former president “ridiculous” and said his personal duty was to the American people.

Mr. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, urged Republicans, particularly Mr. Johnson, to reject the deal ahead of the election and deny the Biden administration’s congressional victories.

In an interview Wednesday, Moskowitz said, “I want to give the Republicans credit” for the back-and-forth border negotiations that have been going on for months.

“They’ve been emphasizing the border issue for a long time, and we’ve been slow,” he said of Democrats. “We were slow to start responding, but now we want to address it, we want to reduce the amount of fentanyl coming in, now we want to deal with illegal immigrants, and now we want to deal with potentially terrorists coming into the country. We want to deal with people who think, “Now we have a country where the Republican Party is controlled by one man, and they’re saying, “No, no, no, this is what we need for the next 10 months.” ”

“Both things are true here,” the Florida Democrat continued. “This is why people hate Washington. Both things are true.”