Murphy claims GOP would rather re-elect Trump than fix the border

Sen. Chris Murphy accused Capitol Hill Republicans of kowtowing to former President Donald Trump by rejecting the newly proposed bipartisan border bill.

The Connecticut Democrat, who is chairman of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security and a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, denounced the Republicans during a speech yesterday on the U.S. Senate floor.

“We delivered a bipartisan bill to fix the border with the Republican senator appointed by the Republican caucus to cut the deal,” Murphy said. “And within 24 hours, before the ink was even dry, Republican senators decided they don’t want a bipartisan bill to fix the border. They want to pretend they never asked for a bipartisan border bill. Because what they actually want is chaos. Because that’s what Donald Trump says he wants.”

Murphy added that “Republicans don’t want to fix the border – they want the border to remain chaotic.” He then claimed the Republicans were rejecting the bill in order to secure a second presidential term for Trump.

“There’s only one person that matters to Republicans, and his name is Donald Trump,” he continued. “Donald Trump made it clear last month. He told Republicans they should oppose any bipartisan bill to fix the border, and he meant it. To Trump it didn’t matter at all, what the policy, what the substance was. His only advice was ‘kill any bipartisan bill.’ Why? Because President Trump wants to win an election. And if the border is fixed by a bipartisan bill, then that hurts his re-election chances. Trump wants chaos at the border because it helps him personally.”

Murphy’s comments echoed remarks made earlier this week by President Biden, who also insisted Trump was responsible for exacerbating the ongoing border crisis.