I can’t say I’ve spent a lot of time listening to what Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) has to say, but he appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday to deliver a truly ludicrous defense of the bloated, ineffective border bill unveiled Sunday night by a bipartisan group of senators.
The bill is a non-starter, and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) almost immediately proclaimed it DOA.
See:
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Murphy started by saying that the president doesn’t have enough authority to solve the problem despite the fact that there are laws already on the books that Biden simply ignores.
The president can’t do this by himself. The president doesn’t have the legal authority without additional legislation to control the border and fix the…