Speaker Johnson Pledges ‘Worse Than Expected’ Senate Border Bill ‘Dead on Arrival’ in House
“I’ve seen enough,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) declared Sunday night.
Just hours after Senate negotiators unveiled their pro-migration border bill, Johnson pledged the bill would never move through the House.
“This bill is even worse than we expected, and won’t come close to ending the border catastrophe the President has created,” Johnson posted on X. “As the lead Democrat negotiator proclaimed: Under this legislation, ‘the border never closes.'”
Johnson referenced a statement from the lead Democrat negotiator, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who correctly pointed out that “the border never closes” under the bipartisan deal.
Murphy touted a “requirement” in the bill for “the President to funnel asylum claims to the land ports of entry when more than 5,000 people cross a day. The border never closes, but claims must be processed at the ports. This allows for a more a more orderly, humane asylum processing system.”
Yet his post is misleading. The threshold to enable the declaration of a new emergency authority is not 5,000 migrant encounters per day, but 8,500. It would take an average of 5,000 migrants crossing per day over seven days to trigger the secretary’s authority to declare an emergency.
And despite Murphy’s claim, the language in the bill reads that the secretary “shall” activate the border authority, not “must.”
Further weakening the language, the president has the authority to waive the declaration for 45 days.
Despite Johnson stating emphatically that the bill will go nowhere in the House, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is expected to begin pulling procedural triggers Monday to enable votes on the bill this week.
It better be DOA. All thisBill-Shit Bill does is legalize the invasion. And not just legalizing the invasion, but preventing the next President from exercising the EXISTING POWERS that President Trump used to stop the "caravan" invasions back before Joe Biden threw the border open. McConnell and any other Republican that endorsed this BS needs to go. Really, who needs Democrats when you have Republicans like McConnell! Are they all compromised traitors in DC? Is there one member of Congress that is not compromised?
The gubment has gone rogue against it's citizens!! It's been rogue for decades. It's just now feeling brazen enough to show it's true face. Our Government is OUR #1 enemy!
