Senate border deal likely dead despite Harris’s apparent wall flip: Lankford

Published August 27, 2024 7:56pm ET



EXCLUSIVE — The bipartisan Senate border package that Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has promised to support if she is elected president is unlikely to be revived, according to the Republican senator who negotiated the deal.

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) told the Washington Examiner in a phone call Tuesday afternoon that he doubted $650 million of border wall funding that he and Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) proposed in the deal last winter, was still available, potentially rendering meaningless Harris’s sudden willingness to spend money on a border wall.

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