The Senate will hold a second vote on the touted “bipartisan” border bill this week, more than three months after the bill failed to pass the first time, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday.
The bill—which Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla.; Chris Murphy, D-Conn.; and Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., originally negotiated—is expected to fail again this week. Schumer, D-N.Y., acknowledged in a letter to his colleagues Sunday that he “does not expect all Democrats to support this legislation,” adding, “nor do I expect all Republicans to agree to every provision.”
Schumer laid blame for the bill’s failure in February on former President Donald Trump, who, according to the New York Democrat, “demanded congressional Republicans kill the legislation.”
