The Senate has yet to vote on the national security package, but the president is already pinning its demise on his likely 2024 rival.

The bipartisan border deal appears on the verge of combustion, and President Joe Biden on Tuesday placed the blame for that squarely on Donald Trump.

“All indications are this bill won’t even move forward to the Senate floor. Why? A simple reason: Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump thinks it’s bad for him politically,” Biden said in remarks from the State Dining Room.

“He’d rather weaponize this issue than actually solve it. So for the last 24 hours, he’s done nothing, I’m told, but reach out to Republicans in the House and the Senate and threaten them and try to intimidate them to vote against this proposal,” the president said. “And looks like they’re caving.”

  • Enkrod@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Trump needs the border as open as possible for his campaigning. It’s his main talking point. A bipartisan bill would undermine his candidacy.

    Republicans don’t want solutions to this, they want power and to get it there must be talking points they can scare their voters with. Actually achieving their ostensible goals would hinder their real goals they need the power for.