The Biden administration is responsible for the failure of the border bill, not Trump, according to Republicans.
Republicans were refused negotiation by Democrats, according to Sen. Markwayne Mullin.
On Friday, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., stated that the Biden administration, not former President Donald Trump, was responsible for the death of the border security bill.
On CNN, Mullin refuted the notion that Trump tried to suppress the bill both publicly and privately before its introduction.
Anchor Manu Raju proposed that Trump lobbied Senate and House members to prevent the bill from passing, but Mullin disagreed with this suggestion.
The Oklahoma senator asserted that Trump joined in only after the Biden administration declined to engage in negotiations with Republicans.
Chuck Schumer never reached out to Republicans to talk to them and they never had a working group together, according to Mullin.
Raju queried regarding Senator James Lankford, R-Okla., the main Republican negotiator for the Senate border security bill. In February, Lankford advocated for critics to peruse the bill, asserting it would establish a "swifter and more robust" deportation mechanism and "reverse the narrative" on Biden's immigration strategy.
He later criticized Democrats for "politicizing" the bill and called for open discussions.
Lankford had also expressed frustration about the bill because Democrats were doing "everything they could to kill it," according to Mullin. Additionally, Mullin claimed that Democrats had closed discussions on the bill and turned it into a "take it or leave it" scenario.
The left media, including yourself, falsely claimed that the bill in question was the Lankford Bill. However, Lankford was only trying to negotiate on behalf of Republicans, while the Democrats never attempted to negotiate with them.
The Biden administration killed the program because they wanted to try something different, despite President Trump not being responsible for its failure, as the administration has been poor on border control, Mullin stated.
In February, Biden claimed Trump was sabotaging the border bill.
"According to Biden, the bill won't proceed to the Senate floor because of Trump's opposition. Trump believes it's politically unfavorable for him, so he has been contacting House and Senate Republicans, threatening them, and attempting to intimidate them into voting against the proposal. It appears that they are complying with his demands."
In February and May, the border bill supported by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., did not pass test votes.
Previously, Senate Republicans labeled the bill as a "sham" and accused Democrats of neglecting to address their priorities, which is a House-backed border bill known as H.R. 2.
The White House declined to provide a comment before the publication deadline.
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