Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham acknowledge a bipartisan border bill was developed but faced opposition from Donald Trump, who reportedly did not support any action on border legislation. The White House reacts to McConnell's statement, highlighting Trump's role in stalling the legislation.
Scoop: White House seizes on Mitch McConnell saying Trump stalled action on border security “This week Senator McConnell explicitly said why the toughest, fairest bipartisan border legislation in modern American history is stalled: ‘our nominee for president did not seem to want…
A top Republican admits what we have known all along—there was a bipartisan border bill on the table that the GOP walked away from because Donald Trump opposed it. https://t.co/KVYAv9WUYo
Lindsey Graham: Everybody who says we should do something about border legislation, you're absolutely right but unfortunately, we didn't get there because Trump opposed the bipartisan border deal. I hate that https://t.co/3aTgfqT2bY
Mitch McConnell: We spent months working on a bipartisan bill to secure the border, but Trump didn't seem to want us to do anything at all. He told us to kill the bill https://t.co/ANy2kFIweX
McConnell: We all felt the border was a disaster. First there was an effort to make law which requires you to deal with Democrats… then our nominee for President didn’t seem to want us to anything at all https://t.co/JLfpekq33T