Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Newsmax Tuesday he blamed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for the secrecy surrounding negotiations on the Senate border bill, otherwise known as the Biden supplemental spending bill, which included aid to Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific, i.e., Taiwan.
Johnson, appearing alongside Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla, told “Eric Bolling: The Balance,” that “it was leader McConnell who set up these secret negotiations on a subject that the vast majority Americans agree with us on.”
“The problem is,” Johnson adds, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., “was negotiating with Democrats who want an open border — who are only looking for negotiating for political cover; it made an almost insurmountable task for him.”
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