Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) slammed the proposed Senate border bill by saying some of the proponents of the legislation do not “know what they’re talking about” with provisions of the bill.
Roy spoke out against the bill, including the foreign aid attached to it and the “problematic” border provisions, on CNN’s The Source With Kaitlan Collins on Monday night.
“The reality is the backdrop here is really important. We have Ukraine funding as a big part of this $118 billion bill. $60 billion for Ukraine, as well as some other foreign aid, none of which is paid for, and then you slap in $20 billion of border funding, tied to legislation that we find to be problematic,” Roy said.
“We find it to be problematic on multiple levels. We believe that it is perpetuating the mass migration that this administration has been advancing under [Homeland Security] Secretary Mayorkas and under President Biden,” he added.
He argued that the bill would make the situation at the border worse.
“I need a solution now. This bill would not be a solution. It would actually make it worse by cementing the bad policies into law,” Roy said.
The Texas Republican also took issue with the threshold for the border to be shut down on a mandatory basis being 5,000 encounters, arguing that cartels smuggling people into the United States via the southern border will adapt to the new threshold.
When CNN host Kaitlan Collins said that senators in favor of the bill, including one of the lead negotiators, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), have claimed it would close the border based on current conditions, Roy dismissed the notion.
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“Then they don’t know what they’re talking about,” Roy said.
The bill is “dead on arrival” in the House of Representatives, according to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), but may struggle to make it out of the Senate. Senate Republicans appear likely to sink an initial vote on the bill on Wednesday, only days after the text of the bill was released.
