The Senate will vote again Thursday on a border bill that Republicans say would do more harm than good.
The bill “is not a border bill, and it is not a border security bill,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said at a press conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. “This is an election-year political stunt designed to give our Democratic colleagues the appearance of doing something about the problem without doing anything at all.”
The border bill at hand previously failed in the Senate in February, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., says he’s bringing the bill back to the floor a second time because “Democrats’ commitment to act never waned.”
Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla.; Chris Murphy, D-Conn.; and Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., originally negotiated the text of the bill.
Blackburn slammed Democrats for being a “party of open…
