Senate Majority Leader McConnell emphasizes the urgency of delivering supplemental legislation on border security, linking it to national security priorities. Democrats are urged to take the issue seriously as the deadline approaches. Kamala Harris claims resources are being provided to secure the border. Various voices stress the importance of border security for national security. There is a call for a breakthrough on a border security/international aid package within two weeks.
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"Borders are an essential element of national security. They are not extraneous. We must secure and defend sovereign borders, beginning right here at home." https://t.co/6VjyOnLQQS Good rhetoric, so long as there's also follow-through.
McConnell: The Senate has two weeks. two weeks to pass supplemental legislation to meet urgent national security priorities. That means time is running out for our Democratic colleagues to recognize that national security begins here at home
Durbin on if they can get a border security/international aid package: We have two weeks left to get this done in a timely fashion. I'm hoping there's a breakthrough this week.
Border security is national security. https://t.co/iMUwzpypwr
The border is secure https://t.co/Tqp8rUyFIa
KAMALA: “We are providing resources” to secure the border. https://t.co/2LQT5YUyER
McConnell: If Senate Democrats refuse to take border security policy changes seriously, they'll also be wrapping America's weakness up as a Christmas gift to Russia, China and Iran. Borders are an essential element of national security. They are not extraneous
McConnell: The Senate has little more than two weeks to deliver supplemental legislation on the floor. Urgent national security priorities, and each one of them deals directly with the questions of border and sovereignty for over a decade.