Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer believes Senate negotiators can reach a deal on Ukraine funding and border security, despite opposition from the hard right, including some taking cues from Donald Trump. Frustrations erupted among Senate GOP members over the border deal, with Senator Ted Cruz criticizing the bill as a 'kamikaze plane in a box canyon with no exits headed for a train wreck.' Cruz and others have expressed concerns about the bill, which remains unfinished and unseen by many.
🇺🇸TED CRUZ SLAMS BORDER BILL "As bad as we think the bill is, I promise you, it's worse. It is a kamikaze plane in a box canyon with no exits headed for a train wreck. It represents Senate GOP leadership waging war on House GOP leadership." Source: Police Frequency https://t.co/holQepPUX7 https://t.co/o8LLX7ECI4
.@tedcruz is on FIRE over the "stinking pile of crap" senate border deal. 🔥 https://t.co/Rw9mh47vjm
Cruz on still unfinished Senate border bill: If the American people knew what was in it, they would be against it. This supplemental bill is a kamikaze plane in a box canyon with no exit headed for a train wreck.
Cruz on why no one has seen border bill text yet: This mysterious bill that is buried down in the basement of Chuck Schumer's office..Ask yourself, why have you not read the text of the bill? There's a reason. As bad as we think the bill is, I promise you, it's worse.
1) Cruz tears into McConnell over pushing for bipartisan border pact, even though House GOP brass opposes still unfinished border bill: Sadly, Mitch McConnell's enemies are conservatives in the Senate and House Republican leadership.
Fiery remarks from @tedcruz on the Senate border deal: "As bad as we think the bill is, I promise you, it's worse" "[This bill] is a kamikaze plane in a box canyon with no exits headed for a train wreck" "...represents Senate GOP leadership waging war on House GOP leadership" https://t.co/S8UO5BrIqM
Frustrations explode @ Senate GOP lunch over border deal One GOP senator said Cruz "wants to make sure the dialogue with the House gives us some indication that this would [be] handing them a life preserver and not handing them the cement block" in 2024 https://t.co/nKlHqvBFD9
Schumer on supplemental: Here in the Senate, we have the obligation to tune out the hard right chaos and let the negotiators finish their work. Too much hangs in the balance for our national security, for our border, for our friends around the world.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says he thinks Senate negotiators can reach a deal on Ukraine funding and border security, even though “many on the hard-right” are “taking cues from Donald Trump” and trying to kill it https://t.co/s6V1vUVnwe https://t.co/D6KueENC5T
1) Schumer on border bill: There are many on the hard right who are trying desperately to kill these negotiations before they even finish. Many of them are motivated by naked partisanship. Others are taking cues from Donald Trump.