Johnson warns Senate on immigration talks and vows to impeach Mayorkas soon
By: Lauren Fox and Manu Raju (CNN)
The Republican House passed HR2 - Secure the Border Act of 2023 on May 11, 2023, when Kevin McCarthy was still Speaker. (See link below for the details.) The Republican position and expectations for border security and changes to immigration activities have been known for many months. Chuck Schumer is the one that declared the Republican legislation dead on arrival and refused to put the House bill on the Senate schedule. Democrats refused to negotiate, Democrats refused to compromise, Democrats refused to address a national problem for purely political point scoring.
Chuck Schumer's politics is responsible for requiring Republicans to withhold aid to Ukraine until Biden's botched up handling of immigration is addressed. Schumer wanted a fight so, now, Schumer has a fight.
Of course, the unbiased liberal press has twisted the truth to blame Republicans. Of course, the unbiased liberal press wants to inject Trump so Biden has a scapegoat. What the unbiased liberal press reports ain't the truth. It you hear it on the new then its probably a lie.
H.R.2 - Secure the Border Act of 2023
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House Speaker Mike Johnson is warning in a new letter that the emerging border deal is “dead on arrival” in his chamber if it resembles anything close to what has been reported, while also announcing that the House will soon vote to make Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas the second Cabinet secretary in history to be impeached.
While the Senate deal has not been released and negotiators warn that the leaks of the package have not been accurate, Johnson’s warning on Friday underscores the high hurdle lawmakers face to pass a major national security package that includes aid to Ukraine and Israel.
Johnson reiterated demands to pass the House GOP’s immigration bill known as HR 2 even though that plan has no chance of passing the Senate.
In the letter, Johnson wrote, “I wanted to provide a brief update regarding the supplemental and the border since the Senate appears unable to reach any agreement. If rumors about the contents of the draft proposal are true, it would have been dead on arrival in the House anyway.”
Johnson said that the House Homeland Security Committee would move ahead next week in committee with articles of impeachment for Mayorkas and “a vote on the floor will be held as soon as possible thereafter.”
Johnson’s move comes as former President Donald Trump has injected himself once again into an immigration showdown on Capitol Hill and as Johnson reiterated his calls for President Joe Biden to use executive action to enforce the border using his executive powers.
“Many of our constituents have asked an important question ‘what is the point of negotiating new laws with an administration that will not enforce the laws already on the books,” Johnson wrote. “If President Biden wants us to believe he is serious about protecting our national sovereignty, he needs to demonstrate his good faith by taking immediate actions to secure it. He should sign an order right now to end the mass release of illegals and dangerous persons into our country.”
The pronouncement comes as Senate leaders have said that bill text could be released as soon as next week. It also highlights a major fault line between the new speaker and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has spent the last six months advocating that his party must deliver aid to Ukraine as the country continues its fight against Russia.
On Thursday, McConnell made clear again to his conference that he views the funding as essential and the emerging border deal as the major opportunity for the party to get major concessions on the border.
But Trump has argued that tackling the border would only undermine his bid for the White House, handing Biden a victory on an issue that would otherwise be a major vulnerability for him in November.
“A Border Deal now would be another Gift to the Radical Left Democrats. They need it politically, but don’t care about our Border,” Trump said in a statement Thursday. “What is currently being worked on in the Senate will be meaningless in terms of Border Security and Closure.”
He added, “If you want to have a really Secure Border, your ONLY HOPE is to vote for TRUMP2024.”
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Democrats have painted themselves into a corner but the unbiased liberal press will hide that fact from the public. Joe Biden created this crisis shortly after he took office. Democrats and the unbiased liberal press have been lying about Biden's crisis to CYA themselves.
Republicans didn't create the immigration mess. Republicans didn't drag us into the Ukrainian quagmire, either. Trump is not forcing Democrats to drag their feet and deny that Biden has created a mess.
You know, Biden is the one telling the country that the fate of the free world depends upon spending $60 billion to prop up a proxy dictator. Biden has been lying about everything and that's what has caused crisis after crisis. Trump and Republicans didn't force Biden, Democrats, and the unbiased liberal press to twist the truth and deliberately mislead the American public. All of this is on Lyin' Biden's shoulders.