President Biden spoke Monday with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as the White House pushes for a vote on a bill bipartisan border security in the Senate.
The White House, in a statement, said Biden “reiterated that congressional Republicans should stop playing politics and act quickly to pass this bipartisan border legislation that would add thousands of Border Patrol agents and personnel, invest in technology to capture fentanyl and combat drug trafficking, and would make our country safer.”
Biden spoke last week with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (DN.Y.).
Schumer announced Sunday that the Senate will take up the bipartisan border agreement as a standalone measure this week.
The vote will almost certainly fail amid opposition from both sides of the aisle, but it will allow Democratic leaders to shift the message toward Republicans as the border dominates conversations during the campaign.
The bill was negotiated by Senators James Lankford (R-Okla.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.). President Biden previously endorsed the bill, calling it a strong compromise in which neither side got everything it wanted.
A majority of the Republican conference earlier this year voted against advancing the legislation after former President Trump urged Republican lawmakers to oppose the measure, indicating it would give Biden a political victory.
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