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Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) The Senate s bipartisan border deal is teetering on collapse Tuesday as many Republicans say they will block the procedural vote set for later this week a frustrating loss for the negotiators who spent months fine-tuning the bill.
"I can t believe this is happening. This is unbelievable," Sen. Chris Murphy, one of the lead negotiators of the bill, said in a Senate floor speech Tuesday.
Murphy and other senators worked for months to negotiate the terms of the $118.28 billion bipartisan national security supplemental package, the text of which was released Sunday night. By Monday night, it was on the brink of collapse as fellow negotiator Sen. James Lankford acknowledged it didn t have the votes for it advance in the Senate in a procedural vote on Wednesday.
"What the hell just happened?" Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, said on the floor.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, in a floor speech on Tuesday, said he would delay the
Richard Sharrocks/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) The three senators who negotiated a bipartisan bill that would beef up border security and immigration enforcement while authorizing more assistance to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine on Monday defended the package after House Republicans led by Speaker Mike Johnson are pushing to squash the deal before it even gets to the lower chamber.
Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., worked for months to negotiate the terms of the $118.28 billion bipartisan national security supplemental package, the text of which was released Sunday night.
Hours after the text s release, Johnson shot it down, saying in a statement that the bill is "dead on arrival" and "even worse than we expected, and won t come close to ending the border catastrophe the President created."
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said the legislation will not even receive a vote in the House.
On Monday, Johnson told re
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