GOP Speaker Mike Johnson Rebukes Senators, Pushes Comprehensive HR 2 Border Bill
NEIL MUNRO | 4 Jan 2024“We’ve delivered common sense legislation that will secure our border, but it’s been sitting on [Sen.] Chuck Schumer’s desk for seven months,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), told a press conference along the banks of the Rio Grande in Texas.
The press event included more than 60 GOP legislators and was scheduled to tout the House GOP’s fix for President Joe Biden’s easy-migration economic policy.
That House fix — the H.R. 2 bill — is being sidelined by GOP Senators as they negotiate with Democratic Senators over a spending package, which includes $50 billion for Ukraine and roughly $14 billion to accelerate and hide Biden’s migration throughout the 2024 campaign year.
Johnson said:
We are very clear, and we have made that clear for seven months. H.R. 2 is the necessary ingredient. Why? Because it has provisions that fix each of these [Biden migration] problems and these things work together.
For example, you couldn’t just reform the broken asylum process and allow this parole system to remain broken. It would be a giant loophole that would not solve the issue.
You can’t just build the wall without ending catch and release, without restoring Remain in Mexico …
We know what works, it’s not rocket science, and that is why we have said we are resolved to [establish] those provisions. That’s what’s necessary to fix the problem.
Johnson’s comments come shortly after the comprehensive and vetted House bill was dismissed by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). . .
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/01/04/gop-speaker-mike-johnson-rebukes-senators-pushes-comprehensive-hr-2-border-bill/
If only we could have had Johnson in place nine months ago.
