House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) claimed the reason House Republicans are against an incoming border bill is that they are “owned” by former President Donald Trump.
Jeffries appeared on This Week on Sunday, saying a bill drafted by a bipartisan group of senators is not dead on arrival, as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has suggested.
“How can a bill be dead on arrival, and extreme MAGA Republicans in the House haven’t even seen the text?” Jeffries said. “House Republicans, at this point, are wholly owned subsidiaries of Donald Trump. They’re not working to find real solutions for the American people. They are following orders from the former president. That’s the height of irresponsibility. That’s what the American people dislike about Washington, D.C., at this moment.”
While Johnson has seen a draft of the bill, it has largely remained under wraps. Trump has voiced his disagreement with the bill.
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Meanwhile, U.S. Customs and Border Protection processed more than 302,000 people at the U.S.-Mexico border in December alone. This is in addition to the over 10 million immigrants who have reportedly entered the country illegally since President Joe Biden took office. It is the most recorded in that amount of time of any administration.
Paired with the border bill is a request for $12 billion in “direct budget support” for the Ukrainian government, plus $10 billion in humanitarian aid that will be shared between Ukraine and Gaza, among others. Jeffries has advocated the support of Ukraine on both fronts.
