{"id":2130213,"date":"2023-12-20T18:19:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-slams-senate-for-leaving-washington-without-border-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T18:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T23:22:50","slug":"manchin-slams-senate-for-leaving-washington-without-border-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-slams-senate-for-leaving-washington-without-border-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchin criticizes Senate&#8217;s departure sans border agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmanchin-slams-senate-for-leaving-washington-without-border-deal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2130213&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Sen. Joe Manchin Criticizes Senate for Leaving\u200c Without Border Security Deal<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) expressed his \u2063disapproval on Wednesday with the Senate deciding to \u201cpack \u200cup and \u2063head \u2062home\u201d \u200bwithout a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-border-deal-negotiators-say-theyre-stuck-amid-asylum-and-parole-disputes\/\" title=\"Senate negotiators working on a border deal are facing obstacles due to disagreements over asylum and parole\">border security deal<\/a>. Senators were forced to come to Washington, D.C., this week on their \u2064scheduled Christmas recess to close out unfinished business for the upper chamber \u200cbut also to\u2064 give negotiators more time to reach a \u200bcompromise on border reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiators continued their work on the border security deal, which is needed to pass the Senate\u2019s defense supplemental \u200cspending package, while\u2063 the 60 or so members who actually\u200d showed up \u2063voted \u200dto confirm the\u200d 11 stalled four-star generals \u2063held over from Sen. Tommy Tuberville\u2019s (R-AL) blanket hold on military promotions. The chamber also passed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-skirts-nationwide-economic-catastrophe-after-last-minute-agreement-to-lift-debt-ceiling\/\" title=\"Congress Skirts Nationwide Economic Catastrophe After Last-Minute Agreement To Lift Debt Ceiling\">short-term extension<\/a> of \u200cthe Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s authority.<\/p>\n<p>But members \u200bbroke for the abbreviated week\u200d on Wednesday without a handshake agreement on the border\u200c deal, meaning the Senate would \u200bbe punting \u200bon the issue until January.<\/p>\n<p>That reality infuriated members on \u200dboth sides of \u2064the aisle, including \u200dManchin, who \u200cdescribed it as\u200b \u201ca failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to leave Washington with \u2063our work\u2063 unfinished\u200d is an unacceptable disservice to\u200b the constituents we are elected to serve,\u201d Manchin said \u2064in a\u200d statement on Wednesday. \u201cLet \u2064me be \u200dperfectly clear \u2014 we \u200dshould not\u200c be abandoning\u200d our responsibilities in favor of a \u200choliday vacation. The American people\u2063 deserve \u2062better.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, Manchin said he was \u201cencouraged by the bipartisan negotiations \u200cthis week\u201d and \u201coptimistic that my colleagues\u2062 on both sides of the aisle can come together and commit to passing commonsense \u2062legislation that secures our Southern Border in the new year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manchin\u2019s Republican colleagues also expressed their frustration about\u2062 how the \u2064Senate operated this week, though for\u200b different reasons.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re here this week\u2063 because [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer [D-NY] had to walk\u2062 his\u200c members through the seven stages of\u200c grief on the fact that we were not going to \u2064get a\u200c border deal because actually drafting good immigration policy takes \u2062more than four days under the crush of the Christmas holiday,\u201d Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) told the Washington Examiner on \u200cTuesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere is no reason for us to be here,\u201d \u2064he continued. \u2062\u201cThere is no reason to keep the\u200d members \u200chere other than to\u2064 apply leverage on them over some last-minute nominations and over \u200ca border deal that was never going to come together on\u2062 the timeline that they promised. It\u2019s absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) concurred with Vance, saying it felt like senators were just \u201cmarking time.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere is no reason for us to be here,\u201d Murkowski told the Washington Examiner \u200dlater\u200b Tuesday. \u201cI am here because I was holding out some level of hope that the\u2063 talks might be productive and \u2063might yield some progress. It&#8217;s clear \u2062that we&#8217;re not going to get a deal that the Senate could [immediately] take up.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Murkowski then revealed\u200d that she planned \u200dto head home after the next series \u2064of \u2064votes to visit with residents affected by \u2063the recent landslide in Wrangell, Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2063 weigh these things,\u201d she explained. \u201cI&#8217;m here; Alaskans have asked me to \u2062represent them. They want me to be here working for\u200b them\u200c and casting \u200dvotes, \u200bbut\u2064 when it seems like we&#8217;re \u2063just kind of\u200d processing things just to keep people busy, I think Alaskans \u200dhave some things back home that they \u200dwould like me to \u2064be\u200c present for as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis \u2062could have been avoided \u200dif\u2062 the leader had better time management in \u200cthe first place,\u201d Sen. Pete\u200d Ricketts (R-NE) \u200dsaid, referring to Schumer, who controls the\u200b floor. \u201cAll these things could have been done months and months ago \u2062if\u2064 the leader had actually scheduled them. We could have worked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone in the \u200dSenate was opposed to the idea of being in Washington longer, though.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNo. 1, I don&#8217;t think anybody who\u2063 came back expected that we&#8217;re going to have a deal,\u201d Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) told the Washington Examiner. \u201cNo.\u2062 2, I came \u2064back because the \u200dmajority leader scheduled votes, and that&#8217;s my job. Plenty of Americans are working \u200bthis week.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNo. 3, \u200ccould all of this have been\u2063 done earlier? Of \u2064course.\u2063 Sometimes it\u200d takes the Senate\u2064 weeks, months, even years to \u2063get nothing \u200ddone, but that&#8217;s the way it is, and it&#8217;s\u2063 part of my job,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What criticisms have been voiced by\u2063 both Democrats and Republicans regarding the Senate&#8217;s decision to leave without a deal?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  To fruition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Senate&#8217;s failure to reach a\u2063 border \u2062security deal before leaving for the holiday break has\u2062 sparked criticism from both Democrats and\u200b Republicans. Sen.\u2063 Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, voiced his disapproval of the Senate&#8217;s decision to leave without a deal, calling it an &#8220;unacceptable disservice&#8221;\u200d to the American \u200bpeople.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin emphasized that elected officials should not abandon their responsibilities in favor of a holiday vacation. He \u2063expressed his hope that bipartisan negotiations can continue in \u2063the \u200dnew year to pass legislation that secures the\u2064 Southern border.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the aisle, \u2063Republican senators \u200balso expressed frustration with how the Senate operated this week. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio criticized Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for taking time to address his members&#8217; disappointment over \u200cthe lack \u2063of a border deal, stating \u2063that drafting comprehensive immigration policy requires more than a few days during the \u200dbusy Christmas holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Vance questioned the necessity \u2063of keeping senators in Washington, suggesting\u200b that it \u2064was\u2063 a tactic to apply leverage on them for last-minute nominations and an elusive border deal.<\/p>\n<p>While both Democrats\u200c and Republicans are unhappy with the Senate&#8217;s inability\u200d to reach a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-gov-greg-abbott-tours-southern-border\/\" title=\"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tours southern border\">border security agreement<\/a> before the break,\u2064 the hopes for a \u2063compromise \u2062remain \u200balive. Manchin expressed his optimism that \u2064lawmakers from both parties can come\u2064 together in the\u2062 new year to pass commonsense \u2063legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The failure to reach a border deal highlights the ongoing challenges of achieving bipartisan \u2063consensus on immigration reform. The issue of border security and comprehensive immigration \u2064policies \u200dwill undoubtedly \u200bcontinue to be a source of contention in the coming months. As negotiations continue, the American \u200dpeople expect their elected officials to prioritize their responsibilities and work towards finding a\u200c solution that will secure the Southern border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) criticized the Senate for leaving without a border security deal. Senators returned to Washington, D.C., during their Christmas recess to wrap up pending matters and allow negotiators additional time. 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