If Republicans were hoping for Speaker Mike Johnson to play hardball over the border crisis, that doesn’t appear to be in the cards. While speaking on “Face the Nation,” Johnson tells host Margaret Brennan that he will not wield the leverage of a government shutdown to try to force a deal that pushes for stricter enforcement.
See: Mike Johnson and 64 House Republicans Assess the Crisis on the Southern Border
That comes as illegal immigration continues to set new records, with over 302,000 encounters happening in the month of December alone. Estimates vary, but somewhere between six and eight million people have illegally crossed the Southern border since Joe Biden took office.
As some in the House GOP threaten to halt government funding until President Biden signs their border security proposals into law, @SpeakerJohnson tells @margbrennan the government won’t shut down – but his…
