How do we know the Senate’s attempt to pass a jumble of border-enforcement and foreign-aid measures is doomed to failure? Even the Senate Republicans who backed the bill this weekend have begun hitting reverse. After pushing hard for the deal this weekend, Mitch McConnell himself has reassessed the situation and has decided to back away (via Memeorandum):
Here’s MITCH McCONNELL speaking about the $188 billion national security supplemental on the Senate floor yesterday afternoon: “It’s now time for Congress to take action.”
And here’s the Senate minority leader speaking to fellow Republicans in a closed-door meeting last night, per Burgess Everett and Ursula Perano, amid a fierce revolt over the border security negotiations he had cultivated for months: “McConnell told Republicans that if they didn’t like the direction that the bill is going, they should vote against…
