Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is still furious about the Senate-led “bipartisan” border deal that failed in spectacular fashion and he feels very strongly the person to blame for this is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky. However, when Newsmax asked him if he would like to to be in McConnell’s position, he showed a fair bit of reluctance to take up the mantle. In all honesty, McConnell is establishment and given his battle with bad health, it probably is time for him to retire and someone else take the job of Senate Minority Leader. Should that be Cruz? I don’t see why not. Unless, of course, he doesn’t want the position.
Newsmax pointed out that the Texas Republican has always been outspoken about their being a change in GOP leadership within the Senate, and that was certainly the case during his recent appearance on “Eric Bolling The Balance.”
“When it comes to frustration with Mitch, you’re preaching to the choir, and I have been vocal for a long, long time that Mitch McConnell is not leading the Senate Republicans effectively, that he’s not fighting for conservative principles, that he’s not honoring the promises we made to the voters,” Cruz said to show host Eric Bolling.
When pressed about whether or not he’d be interested in the job, he definitely slowed his roll a bit.
“Well, one step at a time,” Cruz remarked. “I’ve said publicly, more than once, I think it’s time for Mitch to go. … And I think there’s enormous frustration in the conference right now, with the job that is being done.”
via the report:
“Because the last three months, the winners: Chuck Schumer and every Senate Democrat are winners. Why? Because Republican leadership stands up and says, ‘Hey, this bill we negotiated was great.’ It wasn’t great. It was terrible. But when Republican leadership says it, you know what? Every Senate Democrat repeats those words,” Cruz said.
And Cruz’s latest frustration came with the bipartisan negotiated foreign aid and border security bill that was sold as delivering wins to Republicans on the border and Democrats on funding for Ukraine.
“This border deal was a debacle from the very beginning,” Cruz said. “Not only did it not secure the border, it made the border worse. Because what it did is it took Joe Biden’s open borders and it codified it. It put it into law, it codified catch and release, which is what’s caused these open borders.”
“This was a bad bill, and so we killed it. I was proud to stand up and lead the effort to kill this bill, and unfortunately, what did Republican leadership say? ‘Well if you’re not willing to pass a bad bill on border security, then the heck with it, we won’t pass any. We’ll just fund the Ukraine funding,’ which is what the Democrats desperately want,” Cruz continued during the interview.
And that standalone $95.3 billion aid bill, which earmarks $60 billion for Ukraine and passed the Senate 70-29, will never see the light of day in the House. Not in that form, Cruz said.
“Here’s what I think the House of Representatives is going to do. I think they are going to take up the bill that the Senate has passed, and I think they’re going to attach H.R.2 to that bill,” Cruz told Bolling. “It would end catch and release, it would build the wall, it would secure the border. In the Senate, I am the author of H.R.2 and I am fighting for us to pass it. But Chuck Schumer said on Day 1, ‘Absolutely not.’ Why? ‘Because it would actually secure the border and we, as Democrats, we want those borders open.'”
Why is it so hard for the people in Congress that we elect to do just do the right thing and take action? Our country should come first before sending aid to anyone else around the world. If the head of a household were to donate half of the family budget to the neighbors while not being able to pay their own bills, we’d all agree the guy was a jerk and a moron for not making sure his own family was taken care of.
And yet, here we are, doing that exact thing on the national level.
It’s absurd.
Build the wall, enforce the law.
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