Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) argued it is “immoral” for Republicans to reject a border deal to help former President Trump. “I didn’t come here to have the president as a boss or a candidate as a boss…

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) argued it is “immoral” for Republicans to reject a border deal to help former President Trump.

“I didn’t come here to have the president as a boss or a candidate as a boss. I came here to pass good, solid policy,” Tillis said Thursday, first reported by NBC News. “It is immoral for me to think you looked the other way because you think this is the linchpin for President Trump to win.”

Members on both sides of the aisle are upset with Trump’s attempt to kill the border deal to deny President Biden a legislative win. His recent remarks calling for GOP members to oppose a border deal that isn’t H.R. 2 have complicated things for the Senate.

  • geekworking@lemmy.world
    27·
    10 months ago

    It’s good to see them breaking with Trump, but it is only because they haven’t done anything besides circle jerk the entire term and need something to show for the time.

    A border deal is a good one for them because there are a lot of ways to spin it come their next election.

      • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Genuine question…how does it do that? People who come here and are undocumented are already not enfranchised

        • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
          2·
          10 months ago

          In the sense that giving the president the power to say, “fuck it. Shut it down completely” seems a bit fascist. I don’t think it incentivizes left leaning people to flock to the polls for Biden.

          • underisk@lemmy.ml
            1·
            10 months ago

            It’s practically a gift to the GOP. It validates their complaints and offers their next president overreaching power to fuck with the border as they please. I hope they do vote it down.