Senate fails to advance border security deal

>>> WE CONTINUE TO FOLLOW BREAKING NEWS FOR YOU. A PROCEDURAL VOTE ON AND LONG NEGOTIATED ORDER SECURITY AND FOREIGN AID PACKAGE FAILED IN THE SENATE. VERY INTERESTING BECAUSE THIS WAS A BIPARTISAN AGREEMENT BUT NOW THE UPPER CHAMBER IS EXPECTED TO HOLD A SECOND BOAT THAT WILL CONSIDER ONLY A NARROWER VERSION OF THE LEGISLATION. SENATORS WILL CONSIDER MEASURE EXCLUDING IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS, THE BOARD SECURED PART OF THE BILL. A GROWING NUMBER OF REPUBLICANS EXPRESSED OPPOSITION TO THE DEAL IN RECENT DAYS. WE WANT TO BRING IN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT NIKOLE KILLION NIKOLE KILLION. WE KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE DAY THAT THIS FAUX WAS EXPECTED TO FAIL. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US NOW? >> THIS WAS AN OPPORTUNITY ON THE PART OF LEADERSHIP TO PUT EVERYONE ON RECORD. KEEP IN MIND THESE NEGOTIATORS GOT SENATOR SINEMA AND SENATOR LANGFORD AND SENATOR CHRIS MURPHY WORKED EXTENSIVELY TO CRAFT THIS BORDER COMPROMISED WHICH WAS REALLY AT THE REQUEST OF MANY SENATE REPUBLICANS AND HOUSE REPUBLICANS FOR THAT MATTER WHO SAID THEY WOULD NOT TAKE UP ANY TYPE OF NATIONAL SECURITY PACKAGE UNLESS WE DEAL WITH THE BOARD FIRST. THESE NEGOTIATORS SOUGHT TO ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE CONCERNS. THEY SPENT THE BETTER PART OF FOUR MONTHS DOING THAT. SO THE LEADER FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO GO ON RECORD ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEY SUPPORT THAT. AND HE SAID THAT AT THE OUTSET OF HIS COMMENTS BEFORE THIS VOTE. ARE YOU FOR BORDER SECURITY OR ARE YOU CAN SIT. AND THAT THIS VOTE WOULD REIFY THAT. AND AS WE SAW THIS WAS AN EXTREMELY NARROW VOTE. 49-50. AND THIS COMES REALLY AS THIS WILL WAS INTRODUCED AND THEN WITHIN 24 HOURS IT WAS VIRTUALLY DEAD BECAUSE SO MANY SENATE REPUBLICANS CAME OUT AGAINST IT. THEIR MAIN GRIPES WERE THAT THEY WEREN'T REALLY PRIVY TO WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH THESE NEGOTIATIONS. THEY FELT EVERYTHING WAS CARRIED OUT IN SECRET. THEY ARE PRESENTED WITH THIS PACKAGE AND ALL THE SUDDEN THEY FELT LIKE THEY HAD TO SWALLOW IT WHEN MANY FELT THAT A, IT DIDN'T GO FAR ENOUGH IN TERMS OF RESTRICTIONS WITH RESPECT TO BORDER POLICY. AND B, OTHERS WANTED TIME TO DIGEST THE DETAILS. AND OTHERS AGAIN JUST HAD A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH THE PROCESS AND HOW THINGS PLAYED OUT. SO MUCH SO THAT THEY BLAMED LEADERSHIP AND EVEN SENATE MINORITY LEADER MITCH McCONNELL FOR HOW HE CARRIED OUT THIS PROCESS. SAYING THAT LEADERSHIP SCREWED THIS UP. THAT'S WHAT SOME SENATE REPUBLICAN SAID. DEMOCRATS FOR THEIR PART FELT THE NEED TO GIVE THE BILL A CHANCE BUT THERE WERE ALSO SOME DEMOCRATS WHO WERE OPPOSED TO THIS INCLUDING SOME MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS WHO FELT THIS WAS NOT HUMANE ENOUGH. THAT THIS WOULD CREATE MORE ISSUES AT THE BORDER SO REALLY THERE WAS OPPOSITION ON BOTH SIDES BUT IN THE END THIS TEST BOAT FAILING AND NOW LEADER SCHUMER COMING UP WITH A PLAN B TO BREAK OFF THE BORDER AND STRICTLY FOCUS ON THE NATIONAL SECURITY COMPONENTS OF THIS PACKAGE FUNDING FOR ISRAEL, UKRAINE AND THE INDO-PACIF

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Keywords: Senate, Immigration, national security, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, senators, congress, israel, ukraine, Taiwan, politics, u.s. politics, border security deal, foreign aid, capitol hill, republicans, democrats, gop

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Length: 3min 15sec (195 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 07 2024