{"id":2230254,"date":"2024-04-25T16:18:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T20:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-employs-mitch-mcconnell-for-latest-attack-line-against-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T16:20:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T20:20:29","slug":"white-house-employs-mitch-mcconnell-for-latest-attack-line-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-employs-mitch-mcconnell-for-latest-attack-line-against-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"White House enlists Mitch McConnell for new assault on Trump"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fwhite-house-employs-mitch-mcconnell-for-latest-attack-line-against-trump%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=2230254&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--><p>The White House highlighted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell&#8217;s criticism of ex-President\u2064 Donald Trump\u2064 regarding the bipartisan Ukraine-border bill. The bill aimed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-bidens-border-crisis-wont-stop-until-we-fix-the-system-republicans-arent-doing-anything\/\" title=\"Psaki: Biden\u2019s Border Crisis Won\u2019t Stop \u2018Until We Fix The System,\u2019 Republicans Aren\u2019t Doing Anything\">bolster border security<\/a> and provide aid to Ukraine against the Russian invasion. Unfortunately, Republican opposition, including Senator\u200b McConnell&#8217;s stance, led to the\u200b bill&#8217;s \u200dfailure. Your summary is concise and\u200d captures the key points about\u2062 the White House&#8217;s highlighting \u200bof Mitch McConnell&#8217;s criticism of Donald Trump in \u200brelation to the Ukraine-border bill. It\u2064 effectively explains the bill&#8217;s objectives and the Republican \u2062opposition that resulted \u200cin its\u200b failure.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>White House<\/a> highlighted comments Senate Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mitch-mcconnell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mitch McConnell<\/a> (R-KY) made earlier this week to attack former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s role in sinking the bipartisan Ukraine-border bill.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s urging.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, after the Senate had also passed the House bills, McConnell publicly stated that \u201cour nominee for president did not seem to want us to do anything at all\u201d regarding the border, as it might help President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> ahead of the 2024 general election. The White House pounced on those comments Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week, Sen. McConnell explicitly said why the toughest, fairest bipartisan border legislation in modern American history is stalled,\u201d White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement. \u201cAfter 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 \u2014 because Donald Trump\u00a0told them to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bates additionally claimed that Biden has \u201cturned around the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-democrat-partys-crime-spike-disproportionately-killing-black-lives\/\" title=\"Nolte: Democrat Party's Crime Spike Disproportionately Killing Black Lives\">soaring violent crime rate<\/a> he inherited\u201d from Trump, even as \u201c80% of House Republicans propose defunding the police by cutting the COPS program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden will not allow extreme Republican officials to endanger American communities,\u201d Bates closed. \u201cHe will keep fighting for the toughest, fairest border security deal in decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After signing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnell-leads-delegation-of-gop-senators-to-ukraine\/\" title=\"Mitch McConnell Leads Delegation of GOP Senators to Ukraine\">foreign aid package<\/a> into law, Biden personally remarked that he would continue to seek a bipartisan accord in addressing security at the southern border.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House spotlighted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell&#8217;s recent criticism of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s obstruction of the bipartisan Ukraine-border bill. The bill aimed to enhance border security and provide aid to Ukraine in its resistance against the Russian invasion. 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