White House enlists Mitch McConnell for new assault on Trump
The White House highlighted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s criticism of ex-President Donald Trump regarding the bipartisan Ukraine-border bill. The bill aimed to bolster border security and provide aid to Ukraine against the Russian invasion. Unfortunately, Republican opposition, including Senator McConnell’s stance, led to the bill’s failure. Your summary is concise and captures the key points about the White House’s highlighting of Mitch McConnell’s criticism of Donald Trump in relation to the Ukraine-border bill. It effectively explains the bill’s objectives and the Republican opposition that resulted in its failure.
The White House highlighted comments Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made earlier this week to attack former President Donald Trump‘s role in sinking the bipartisan Ukraine-border bill.
Senators had unveiled a bipartisan bill to address border security while sending billions in aid to help Ukraine fight off the Russian invasion. But Republicans tanked the package, co-authored by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), at Trump’s urging.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) eventually advanced a series of separate foreign aid packages that stripped out the border provisions originally requested by Republicans, and Biden signed the package into law on Wednesday.
Earlier in the week, after the Senate had also passed the House bills, McConnell publicly stated that “our nominee for president did not seem to want us to do anything at all” regarding the border, as it might help President Joe Biden ahead of the 2024 general election. The White House pounced on those comments Thursday.
“This week, Sen. McConnell explicitly said why the toughest, fairest bipartisan border legislation in modern American history is stalled,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement. “After President Biden worked with Republicans and Democrats in the Senate to assemble a landmark deal that secured the border and cracked down on fentanyl, congressional Republicans have been direct about why many of them sided with drug cartels and human smugglers over the Border Patrol Union and the Chamber of Commerce — because Donald Trump told them to.”
Bates additionally claimed that Biden has “turned around the soaring violent crime rate he inherited” from Trump, even as “80% of House Republicans propose defunding the police by cutting the COPS program.”
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“President Biden will not allow extreme Republican officials to endanger American communities,” Bates closed. “He will keep fighting for the toughest, fairest border security deal in decades.”
After signing the foreign aid package into law, Biden personally remarked that he would continue to seek a bipartisan accord in addressing security at the southern border.
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