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Trump was working to kill the specific bill being considered in the Senate. He had been calling House members and Senators for weeks before it publicly died the weekend of the 27th. He wasn't a passive bystander, staying out of the discussion until he saw the specifics of the measure that came out of the process - he was trying to kill the negotiations from nearly the outset, as the GOP Senators outlined in their comments. Johnson didn't take the lead in deciding whether to kill the Senate bill - and there's no reason why he would have, given Trump's role in the party.Trump has been saying for years "No deal without the wall". The Oklahoma guy and the democrats were swearing up and down (backed up by this board) that this bill was The Best Deal Republicans Would Ever Ever Get And Sign It Now without releasing anything.
Johnson looked at the bill on a Friday, told his caucus it was a pile of shit over the weekend, and that was that. Trump didn't weigh in until later, around Monday. By then the bill was DOA.
It's merely a semantics game to pretend otherwise.
BTW
npr.org - Biden executive order asylum migration borderPresident Joe Biden on Tuesday issued an executive order to temporarily suspend the processing of most asylum claims at the southern U.S. border when the seven-day average of unauthorized crossings exceeds 2,500.dhs.gov - Fact sheet presidential proclamation suspend and limit entry and joint dhs DOJToday, the Biden-Harris Administration took decisive new action to strengthen border security, announcing a series of measures that restrict asylum eligibility, and significantly increase the consequences for those who enter without authorization across the southern border. These extraordinary steps, which will be in effect during times when high levels of encounters exceed our ability to deliver timely consequences, will make noncitizens who enter across the southern border ineligible for asylum with certain exceptions, raise the standard that is used to screen for certain protection claims, and speed up our ability to quickly remove those who do not qualify for protection.No rational observer of the southern border believes a word of this; it's merely boilerplate.
Double BTW. I've noticed an increased level of snark lately. If that's how you want things to be that's a choice you can make.
