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Don't take my word for it, goober. Listen to Republican Senator James Lankford. --
“Only in Washington is our southern border political gamesmanship instead of a national security crisis,” he said, as the right wing started ramping up its opposition.
Lankford over the weekend seemed to expound on his meaning. He suggested that Republicans were flip-flopping and prioritizing Donald Trump’s 2024 election hopes — and there’s evidence for this contention.
“It is interesting: Republicans, four months ago, would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel and for our southern border because we demanded changes in policy,” Lankford said on CNN.
He added: “And now, it’s interesting, a few months later, when we’re finally getting to the end, they’re like, ‘Oh, just kidding, I actually don’t want a change in law because it’s a presidential election year.’”
Lankford has rejected GOP claims that all that’s needed is to have a president like Trump with the will to secure the border. He has noted that even Trump as president emphasized the need for legislation to change things like asylum laws — as his proposal would.
Lankford also isn’t the only one who continues to defend and push the effort. So too have the top two Senate Republicans and the likes of Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.). Many of them have made principled cases, like Lankford, that this a conservative proposal and that the problem is too significant to bow to Trump’s wishes.
