President Biden had a discussion on Monday with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) regarding the White House’s efforts to secure a vote on a bipartisan border security bill in the Senate.
In a statement, the White House stated that 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 catch fentanyl and combat drug trafficking, and make our country safer.”
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Last week, Biden spoke with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).
Schumer announced Sunday that the Senate will vote on the bipartisan border agreement as a stand-alone resolution this week.
Resistance on both sides of the aisle almost guarantees the vote’s failure, but it will allow Democratic leaders to shift the focus to Republicans as the border dominates campaign discourse.
Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) worked together to negotiate the bill. President Biden previously supported the law, describing it as a strong compromise in which neither side got everything they wanted.
Earlier this year, a majority of the Republican Conference voted against moving the proposal forward after former President Trump lobbied GOP legislators to oppose it, implying that it would provide Biden with a political advantage.
