House Republicans Say Speaker Is Right to Doubt Unpublished Senate Border Deal

Published on February 2, 2024

Several Republican House members are standing by comments House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has offered in recent days, declaring a tentative Senate border security agreement would be dead on arrival in the House if rumors about its contents prove accurate. The actual text of the Senate agreement has not yet been released, but rumors about some of the deal’s provisions have circulated throughout Capitol Hill and many Republicans in both houses of Congress haven’t liked what they’ve heard. Asked if it’s wrong to weigh in against the border deal without the actual text, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) told NTD News that even the basic outline of the deal members of Congress have heard make it dead on arrival....

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