American President Joe Biden reported that a bipartisan proposal on immigration issues was submitted to the US Senate, but it will not be brought to plenary session due to Donald Trump, who has threatened and thrown out lawmakers willing to vote for the reform accused him of “turning the immigration crisis into a weapon.”
At the White House, Biden called the bill “the fairest and most humane reforms to our immigration system in a long time and the toughest reforms ever made to secure the border.” “Now everything points to this bill not even making it to the Senate floor. Why? One simple reason: Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump thinks it’s bad for him politically.”
Biden said Trump would “rather weaponize this problem than solve it.” He said he was told that in the last 24 hours, Trump had done nothing other than reach out to Republicans in the House and Senate, “threatening them and trying to intimidate them into voting against this proposal.” “.
“It looks like they’re giving in,” Biden said. “Frankly, they owe it to the American people to show some courage and do what they know is right.”
The Democratic president has urged lawmakers to pass a bipartisan deal in the Senate that combines border control measures with $60 billion in war aid to Ukraine, and tens of billions of dollars more for Israel, other U.S. allies in Asia and humanitarian aid.
But Biden, the Senate’s top Democrat, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and the top Republican, Sen. Mitch McConnell, have faced a wall of opposition from conservatives led by Trump, who rejected the border proposal as inadequate. The Senate is expected to hold a procedural vote on Wednesday, with 60 votes needed to advance the measure, which also includes aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
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