Pennsylvania's Republican Senate nominee, Dave McCormick, takes aim at President Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Sen. Bob Casey over border security.
Pennsylvania may be 1,600 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, but the GOP candidate aiming to flip the crucial Northeast battleground state's Democratic-held Senate seat from blue to red this fall is spotlighting the combustible issues of border security and immigration. Republican Dave McCormick claims that a new move by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the chamber, to vote this week on a standalone border policy bill is 'the height of cynicism.
The vote appears to be an election-year move by Schumer to paint Republicans as putting campaign politics over policy and unwilling to solve the border crisis. And House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said if the bill reaches his chamber, it would once again be 'dead on arrival.' SCHUMER SAYS SENATE TO VOTE ON BORDER SECURITY BILL THIS WEEK McCormick argued that the move by Schumer is 'the height of cynicism.
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