Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford is getting criticism this week over signing on as the GOP sponsor for the Democrats’ proposal for the border.
House Republican leadership dismissed the bill as “dead on arrival” hours after the text was published, adding Monday that “any consideration of this Senate bill in its current form is a waste of time.” That’s because the bill essentially codifies the current border crisis into law.
“This bill is even worse than we expected,” said GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson over the weekend.
Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee called the negotiated legislation a “betrayal.” “This is worse than bad negotiation,” Lee wrote on X.
Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called the bill “an utter disaster” in a social media post linked to an online thread from Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy bragging about the negotiated legislation keeping a border that “never closes.”
An utter disaster. Here’s a thread of the Dems bragging about what an open-borders victory this bill would be.
As Murphy puts it “The Border NEVER closes!” https://t.co/dvSbi6sp9O
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 5, 2024
Former President Donald Trump piled on in an interview on “The Dan Bongino Show.” “I think this is a very bad bill for [Lankford’s] career,” Trump said, “especially in Oklahoma.”
Indeed, last month, the Oklahoma senator was formally censured by his home state’s GOP over his betrayal of voters’ policy priorities. The border crisis doesn’t even need a new law to solve. What it
