- President Trump on Saturday welcomed the Senate's rejection of the border security bill.
- President Trump slammed the bill as an “open borders” bill that Biden supports.
- Biden has said he will hold Trump accountable on border security issues from now until November.
Former President Donald Trump scored a victory Saturday for helping to block a bipartisan border security bill in the Senate. The bill has been repeatedly criticized by Trump, who has sought to make immigration a central tenet of his 2024 campaign.
At a campaign rally in South Carolina, President Trump, who had previously called on Republicans to reject the immigration bill, slammed the proposed bill as “disastrous” and praised the Senate's defeat of the bill. . The bill would overhaul the U.S. asylum system, among other measures aimed at strengthening security at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“We also achieved a major victory that all conservatives should celebrate.” President Trump said. “We crushed Joe Biden's disastrous open borders bill. [House Speaker] Mike Johnson did a very good job and the whole group did a great job in Congress. ”
“We crushed it,” the former president emphasized.
Trump has rallied supporters to say immigration has become a major political liability for Biden, who experienced record unrest at the southern border during his presidency. Polls over the past year have shown that immigration is the issue on which the president is significantly unsupported by voters.
Biden strongly supported the border security bill, arguing that he could “close” the border whenever it became crowded.
“If given that authority, I would exercise it the same day I signed the bill,” he said in a statement last month.
But leading conservatives on Capitol Hill criticized the bill and called for the Senate to take up the more restrictive HR2 bill, which the Republican-controlled House passed last year, instead.
Meanwhile, President Trump called on Republicans to reject the Senate bill, even saying he would take responsibility if it dies.
Last Wednesday, the border security bill failed in the Senate 49-50, falling far short of the 60 votes needed to pass the bill. Five Democrats and one independent voted against the bill, while only four Republicans supported it.
Mr. Biden is now moving on to attack immigration, vowing to hold Mr. Trump responsible for the failure of the bill.
“Every day from now until November, the American people will learn that the only reason our border is unsafe is because of Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican friends,” the president said at the White House last week. Ta.
