South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace clashed with Fox News host Martha McCallum on Monday over foreign aid and border security policy, claiming the bill's sponsors are being dishonest.
Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma negotiated the bill with Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. The announcement was made by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington. sentence Sunday bill. Mr. McCollum went after Mr. Mace on the bill, as many House Republicans suggested the bill was dysfunctional on arrival. (Related article: 'Take the L': Republican chief negotiator receives praise for defending border bill on social media)
“People were being told that unless we did something at the border first, funding for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan would not happen,” Lankford said in defense of the bill. Mr. McCallum told Mr. Mace. “So these negotiators have come together and are working on a program to begin to resolve at least a little bit of some of the problems that exist on the border. They came up with something, and now you “Many Republicans, including many Republicans, are closing the border.” What do you say to the American people about that? ”
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Mace responded, “This bill leaves our borders wide open.” “This bill has so many loopholes that it's mind-boggling, and the Republicans who support this bill support open borders because Secretary Mayorkas has no control over who can enter the country beyond the 5,000-person limit. For those seeking asylum, Americans are tired of being ATM machines for the illegal aliens who cross the border every day. The more I read the wording of this bill, the more frustrated I become. And. It's not what we're sold to. ”
McCollum said there were still 50 pages left in the bill, which would provide $60 billion in aid to Ukraine and $14 billion to Israel, and the South Carolina Republican asked Mace if he would read the bill. Ta.
“When you have a loophole on the other side in the next page of the bill that invalidates everything you’re talking about there and allows bureaucrats to make decisions rather than courts, it eviscerates the logic behind people seeking asylum. That's what we're talking about here,” Mace said in response after McCollum outlined some of the bill's provisions. “That’s the language we’re reading in the bill.”
“One thing I can say is that we are not being told the truth here about this bill, but I have written about it as thoroughly as I did with the bad debt cap bill last year. We're going to issue a statement explaining. Explain to the American people what the truth is, because they don't deserve anything but the truth,” Mace added.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered 302,000 illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in December, after encountering about 380,000 illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in the first two months of fiscal year 2024, which began in October. More than 1,000 illegal immigrants were reported to have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. .1, according to According to data released by authorities. CBP also reported more than 5.8 million encounters in fiscal years 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Lankford did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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