The Senate’s $118 billion spending bill failed to advance past a procedural vote on the Senate floor Wednesday.
The bill included funding for border-related measures, Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The bill fell short of receiving the 60 votes needed to keep moving forward in the Senate.
If the bill had passed in the Senate and gone on to pass in the House, it would have “codified Joe Biden’s open border,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Wednesday on his podcast “Verdict with Ted Cruz.”
The bill would put the policy of catch and release “into law,” according to Cruz, which “normalized 5,000 illegal aliens [crossing the border] a day.”
The Senate’s 370-page bill includes about $20 billion in border-related spending and directs the Department of Homeland Security to close the southern border “during a period of seven consecutive…
