A late Wednesday evening meeting to advance a border security bill through the House Rules Committee ended amid conservative rebels' objections to the measure and Speaker Johnson's foreign aid bill.
A meeting to advance Speaker Mike Johnson’s latest border security bill abruptly ended on Wednesday night without a vote on whether the measure will hit the House floor. 'Sorry, not sorry, for opposing a cr---y rule that is a show vote / cover vote for funding Ukraine instead of border security,' Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, wrote on X after the meeting imploded.
In a remarkable moment toward the end of the meeting, Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., the top Democrat on the committee, acknowledged that the bill has no support from Democrats and likely no future in Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's Senate. He also pointed out that the three conservative rebels on the panel would likely vote against the bill as well – meaning it would not even survive their committee. 'We've been here. We've done this already. We know what the Senate is going to do.
Johnson has argued that tying U.S. border measures to foreign aid, especially Ukraine, would kill its chances of passing .'We want the border to be part of every single thing we do here,' he told reporters on Thursday morning, adding, 'We don’t have the votes. If you put Ukraine in any package, you can’t also do the border because I lose Republican votes on that rule. My friends don’t get it.
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