Former South Carolina governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has yet to explicitly endorse the Senate’s “atrocious” Ukraine and illegal border invasion bill, but that hasn’t stopped her from regurgitating talking points from some of the legislation’s biggest proponents.
CNN’s Dana Bash asked Haley during her “State of the Union” show on Sunday whether Trump is “playing politics with the border” for opposing any border deal that doesn’t include “EVERYTHING needed to shut down the INVASION of Millions & Millions of people.”
“Nobody should be playing politics with the border,” Haley replied. “First of all, he shouldn’t be getting involved telling Republicans that ‘Wait until the election, because we don’t want this to help Biden’ when we can’t wait one more day.”
Nikki Haley just went on CNN to voice her support for a border deal that allows millions of illegals to pour into the country and gives billions to Ukraine. Instead of attacking Biden, Haley trashes President Trump for getting involved and “playing politics with the border”. pic.twitter.com/sI6JA5BXME
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Haley dodged giving a verdict on the Democrat bill that would send billions more U.S. tax dollars to Ukraine while allowing millions to keep illegally crossing the U.S. border. Instead, she claimed Trump was “absolutely playing politics by telling them not to do anything.”
“This is not a time to play politics. What I do think is they need to get something out,” Haley said.
Haley’s spokeswoman did not respond to The
