{"id":2248468,"date":"2024-05-20T09:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T13:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-revives-doomed-border-plan-to-protect-five-vulnerable-senators\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T09:10:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T13:10:20","slug":"schumer-revives-doomed-border-plan-to-protect-five-vulnerable-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-revives-doomed-border-plan-to-protect-five-vulnerable-senators\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer renews border protection plan for five at-risk senators"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fschumer-revives-doomed-border-plan-to-protect-five-vulnerable-senators%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=2248468&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>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer \u200dof New York announced the revival of the failed Senate\u200b border bill for a vote this week. He accuses Republicans \u2064of using the vote \u2064as a shield for vulnerable Democrats.\u200c House GOP leaders criticize Schumer, claiming the \u2062bill codifies Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-threatens-to-sue-texas-over-barriers-on-rio-grande-blocking-illegal-immigration\/\" title=\"Biden administration may take legal action against Texas for barriers impeding illegal immigration on Rio Grande.\">open border\u2062 policies<\/a>. They push\u200b for consideration\u2063 of other legislations passed by the House. Senate Majority\u200d Leader Chuck Schumer from\u2063 New York \u2062has reintroduced the \u200dunsuccessful \u200cSenate \u200dborder bill for voting this week. Schumer alleges that Republicans are leveraging the vote \u200bto protect at-risk Democrats. \u2062Conversely, House GOP leaders criticize Schumer, asserting that the bill enshrines Biden&#8217;s border policies. They advocate for \u2064reviewing other House-passed legislations\u2063 instead.  <\/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>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/chuck-schumer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Chuck Schumer\">Chuck Schumer<\/a> (D-NY) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3009512\/schumer-reintroducing-bipartisan-border-bill-to-senate-but-shares-doubts-over-chances\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Chuck Schumer\">announced<\/a> Sunday evening that he would bring the failed Senate border bill back up for a vote this week, but Republicans claim the vote is a stunt to defend vulnerable Democrats up for election in November.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democrats.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/20240519_-_dear_colleaguepdf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"proclaimed\">proclaimed<\/a> in his \u201cDear Colleague\u201d letter that the upper chamber of Congress would be dealing with \u201cthe pressing issue of our nation\u2019s border security\u201d this week and accused former President Donald Trump and his allies of initially sinking the bill. He is trying to put the ball in the GOP-led House of Representatives\u2019 court by claiming the \u201cDemocrats\u2019 commitment to act never waned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Republican leaders, including House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Mike Johnson\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), and House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), issued a joint statement on Monday morning accusing the Democratic Senate leader of using the vote as \u201ccover\u201d for some of his vulnerable members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor more than three years now, Congressional Democrats have stood by while the Biden Administration has opened our borders to criminal drug cartels, terrorists, and untold millions of illegal immigrants. Now, Leader Schumer is trying to give his vulnerable members cover by bringing a vote on a bill which has already failed once in the Senate because it would actually codify many of the disastrous Biden open border policies that created this crisis in the first place,\u201d the House GOP leaders said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould it reach the House, the bill would be dead on arrival,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>House GOP leadership also pointed to pieces of legislation it has passed but that the Senate has left idle, including the Laken Riley Act and HR 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Senate Democrats were actually serious about solving the problem and ending the border catastrophe, they would bring up HR 2 and pass it this week,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/convicted-sex-offenders-pouring-across-the-border-one-sector-sees-3166-increase\/\" title=\"Convicted Sex Offenders Pouring Across The Border: One Sector Sees 3,166% Increase\">made border security<\/a> a central part of their campaigns since Trump started running on the idea of building a wall across the entire length of the border with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure to look tough on questions of border security and illegal immigration is building on several vulnerable Democrats. Even those senators who aren\u2019t in border states have felt the need to talk and vote tough on the border so they can assuage voters\u2019 fears about record levels of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-recruiting-gop-senators-for-amnesty-deal\/\" title=\"Democrats Recruiting GOP Senators for Amnesty Deal\">illegal border crossings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) are seeking reelection in heavily Republican states, while Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) all face tough battles in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-more-votes-than-voters-in-key-swing-states\/\" title=\"Trump: More Votes Than Voters in Key Swing States\">key swing states<\/a> for the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these senators have looked to remove the ability for the GOP to attack on border security, with all of them supporting the border bill Schumer is reviving. All five senators are in races <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/ratings\/senate-race-ratings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"rated\">rated<\/a> as either \u201ctoss-ups\u201d or \u201clean Democratic\u201d by the <em>CookPoliticalReport<\/em>. In all five of the states where the senators are running, President Joe Biden is either trailing or neck-and-neck with Trump in the polls.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has also looked to neutralize the border matter in his reelection battle against Trump and has pushed for the bill to get passed to show action on the border, which remains a key topic for voters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly support this legislation and call on every Senator to put partisan politics aside and vote to secure the border,\u201d White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement on Monday regarding Schumer\u2019s announcement to bring the border bill for a vote this week.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have pushed back on the bill as not going far enough, solidifying bad border security policies, and having provisions for items they argue Biden can already do through executive authority.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) revealed plans to reintroduce the Senate border bill for a vote this week. Republicans allege it&#8217;s a tactic to shield at-risk Democrats facing November elections. In a &#8220;Dear Colleague&#8221; letter, Schumer affirmed his commitment to the Senate&#8217;s actions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2248469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24136700149005.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2248468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24136700149005.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}