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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to get a"bipartisan" border bill through the chamber this week after previous attempts failed.
The legislation struggled to gain traction among Republicans even with Lankford's support. During March's State of the Union address, President Joe Biden urged Congress to pass the bill. Lankford was caught agreeing with the president, mouthing"that's true" when the president said that hiring 4,300 more asylum officers would reduce the backlog of immigration cases from six years to six months.
"The former president made clear he would rather preserve the issue for his campaign than solve the issue in a bipartisan fashion. On cue, many of our Republican colleagues abruptly reversed course on their prior support, announcing their new-found opposition to the bipartisan proposal," Schumer said on Sunday.
"Press conferences take one person. Passing law takes 60," he said."That means we have to sit down together to be able to talk this through. We have to be able to figure out how we're going to actually get something done and at least make some progress."
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