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‘BS’: Top Dem Senator Goes on Offense Against Republicans
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) is calling “BS” on Senate Republicans – and calling them out by name – over their continued failure to pass the Senate’s massive border and military funding for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan bill that he helped craft.
Sen. Murphy’s first target: top Trump MAGA surrogate Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), who told Fox News, “The left want an open, insecure border. The conservatives and common sense independents, we want a secure America. That means you have to control your back door.”
Scott: The left wants an open, insecure border. The conservatives and common sense independents, we want to secure America. That means you have to control your back door. pic.twitter.com/B18sow10au
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 20, 2024
Murphy did not hold back.
“Bullshit,” the Connecticut Democrat wrote on social media Tuesday. “We reached a bipartisan compromise to give the President enormous new powers to control the border. Almost every single Republican – including Sen. Scott – voted against it because Trump told them to keep the border a mess because it might help him politically.”
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Senator Murphy’s second target was U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), who claimed, “The recent bill would have been worse than doing nothing by codifying [Biden’s] open border policies into law.”
Americans want a secure border. The recent bill would have been worse than doing nothing by codifying @POTUS’s open border policies into law.
We didn’t want an immigration bill. We wanted something to force Biden to use the authority he has to secure the border.… pic.twitter.com/RKa3q12AS8
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) February 19, 2024
“Bullshit,” Sen. Murphy again responded. “The bipartisan border bill that Sen. Johnson’s party asked for and then voted against because Trump said so would have
ALLOWED
THE
PRESIDENT
TO
SECURE
THE
BORDER.”
Next, the Connecticut Democrat called out U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). writing, “also bullshit.”
Sen. Blackburn had claimed, “Even Secretary Mayorkas has said what’s happening at the southern border ‘certainly is a crisis.’ It’s past time the Biden administration put a stop to this madness. CLOSE the border.”
Sen. Murphy added, “Senator Blackburn knows the bill would have actually allowed the President to close parts of the border when crossings get too high. But who would book Republicans on cable news if the border was actually under control? That’s why they killed it.”
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