Within the first couple hours of the Sunday release of a Senate bill coupling border security reforms with aid for U.S. allies, such as Ukraine and Israel, critics quickly began to highlight the words of one of the legislation’s architects as a reason to reject the 370-page measure while Republicans leaders in the House warned it would be “dead on arrival.”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), a negotiator for Democrats, posted a thread to X sharing a list of “key elements” of the compromise that came out of a months long effort that sought to answer the call of President Joe Biden’s roughly $106 billion national security supplemental request and satisfy a Republican push for an overhaul of the immigration system that people in both major parties acknowledge needs to be shaken up.
One post in the thread, featuring Murphy’s fifth point out of 10, said, “A requirement the President…
