81-year-old Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell admitted on Tuesday that the Senate’s bipartisan border bill has no real chance of becoming law.
“It’s been made pretty clear to us by the [House] speaker [Mike Johnson] that it will not become law,” the 81-year-old Kentuckian bluntly conceded to reporters.
“It looks to me and to most our members as if we have no real chance here to make a law,” McConnell added.
“I followed the instructions of my conference,” a visibly agitated McConnell told reporters. “It was actually my side that wanted to tackle the border. We started it.
“Obviously with a Democratic president and a Democratic Senate, our negotiators had to deal with them.”
“To pick off the Border Council, which supported President Trump, certainly underscores that it was a quality product,” the minority leader said, referencing the Border Patrol union’s endorsement. “Things have changed over the last four months.”
After nearly half of Senate Republicans came out against the bill, multiple reports indicated that McConnell turned on the bill, imploring the remaining GOP Senators not to vote for it.
“McConnell recommended to GOP senators behind closed doors that they BLOCK the border bill on Wednesday, per multiple sources, bc it’s clear that most Republicans are preparing to vote no — either because they oppose the bill or want more time,” reporter Andrew Desiderio wrote on X.
“McConnell explicitly recommended a NO vote on cloture on the motion to proceed, according to several attendees,” he continued. “McConnell said the problem isn’t what Lankford negotiated, it’s that the political mood in the country has changed.”
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