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Biden to urge Congress to pass border security and foreign aid bill

Headline from CBS News, on the newest of 3 developments

A growing number of Republicans are voicing opposition to the Senate-negotiated deal.

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Developments in this update

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  1. House Republicans Admit They Are Blocking Border Bill To Hurt Biden's Approval Rating

    Headline from PoliticusUSA ·

  2. Biden challenges House GOP to solve border crisis — or ‘keep playing politics’

    Headline from Politico ·

  3. Newest

    Biden to urge Congress to pass border security and foreign aid bill

    Headline from CBS News ·

3 reports not tied to one development ·

Reports & sources

24 articles, oldest first.

  1. Blaze Media

    THIS is the ONLY bill Biden needs to sign to secure the border (opens Blaze Media)

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    Blaze Media's feed description

    In a shocking twist, President Biden suddenly cares about the invasion at the border. After years of denying a border crisis, the president has promised to “shut down the border right now” if given new emergency powers in a bill passed by Congress. However, Glenn Beck isn’t so sure new emergen...

  2. NewsBusters

    Biden’s Bad Border Deal (opens NewsBusters)

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    NewsBusters's feed description

    President Biden offered a deal on the border to congressional Republicans that they could refuse. To their credit, they did. The president, speaking from South Carolina, said he would shut down the border “right now,” if Congress passed the proposed bipartisan deal now in front of them.

  3. PoliticusUSA

    House Republicans Admit They Are Blocking Border Bill To Hurt Biden's Approval Rating (opens PoliticusUSA)

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    PoliticusUSA's feed description

    A House Republican told reporters that the reason why they are blocking a bill to help with the border is because it will keep Biden's approval rating low.

  4. Fox News

    House Republicans push Biden to fix border ‘catastrophe’ through executive action (opens Fox News)

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    Fox News's feed description

    A group of House Republicans is writing directly to President Biden on Friday, pressing him to use his executive authority to close the border.

  5. Blaze Media

    Speaker Johnson personally read the law to Biden on border crisis, and he reveals why Biden refuses to take action (opens Blaze Media)

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    Blaze Media's feed description

    House Speaker Mike Johnson (R) admitted Friday that he believes White House staff — not President Joe Biden — are making decisions about Biden's immigration policy.Last weekend, Biden promised to "shut down" the border only if Congress passes a controversial bill — which has not yet been drafted — t…

  6. Fox News

    Democrats in disarray on border security, push for action from Biden after downplaying ‘open-border’ crisis (opens Fox News)

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    Fox News's feed description

    Democrats are now turning on President Biden over border security after spending years downplaying the migrant crisis and pushing the blame onto Republicans.

  7. Fox News

    Biden needs a spine, not more legislation, to shut down the border (opens Fox News)

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    Fox News's feed description

    Federal immigration law already gives President Biden the ability to close the border – and he, his advisers and his political allies know it.

  8. Politico

    Biden challenges House GOP to solve border crisis — or ‘keep playing politics’ (opens Politico)

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    Politico's feed description

    The president said the bipartisan border deal includes some of the “toughest and fairest set of border reforms in decades.”

  9. New York Post

    Border bill is terrible, and a way for Biden to dodge blame for not enforcing the law (opens New York Post)

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    New York Post's feed description

    Panicked by bad poll numbers on immigration, Senate Democrats are attempting to use the border emergency caused by President Biden’s immigration policies as an excuse to ram through a nearly 400-page bill.

  10. Time

    Senate Releases Bipartisan Border and Ukraine Bill (opens Time)

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    Time's feed description

    The compromise, supported by President Joe Biden, faces long odds in the House, where many Republicans follow Donald Trump in opposing the deal as not strong enough on immigration.

  11. Fox News

    GOP senators rally against bipartisan border deal, citing Biden’s power to suspend ‘emergency’ bill (opens Fox News)

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    Fox News's feed description

    GOP senators strongly oppose the bipartisan border bill, citing concerns about its efficacy and the potential for Secretary Mayorkas to grant asylum without immigration court review.

  12. NBC News

    Biden to urge Congress to pass bipartisan border security bill that Republicans now oppose (opens NBC News)

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    NBC News's feed description

    WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is expected to deliver remarks Tuesday morning urging Congress to pass a bipartisan package of border security measures and asylum restrictions that Republicans are threatening to block on the Senate floor.

  13. Politico

    Republicans are ‘caving’ — Biden blames Trump as border deal falters (opens Politico)

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    Politico's feed description

    The Senate has yet to vote on the national security package, but the president is already pinning its demise on his likely 2024 rival.

  14. CBS News

    Biden to urge Congress to pass border security and foreign aid bill (opens CBS News)

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    CBS News's feed description

    A growing number of Republicans are voicing opposition to the Senate-negotiated deal.

  15. KVIA El Paso

    Potential failure of border bill creates a political opening for Biden (opens KVIA El Paso)

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    KVIA El Paso's feed description

    CNN By Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — The impending failure of a bipartisan border deal reached by senators this weekend appears set to hand President Joe Biden an issue that he can wield against former President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers on the campaign trail.

  16. Newsweek

    Biden scoffs at Republicans (opens Newsweek)

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    Newsweek's feed description

    President Joe Biden said Republicans are "afraid" of Donald Trump while speaking about the bipartisan border bill on Tuesday.

  17. NPR

    Biden tells Republicans to 'show some spine,' buck Trump, and back border bill (opens NPR)

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    NPR's feed description

    President Biden said it seems like the bill with funding for the border, Ukraine and other national security issues will fail. He vowed to make that failure an election issue.

  18. Fox News

    Biden attacks Trump for opposing border bill, threatens to make immigration a campaign issue (opens Fox News)

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    Fox News's feed description

    President Biden blamed former President Trump for growing opposition to the Senate border security bill that Republican lawmakers have rejected as insufficient.

  19. The Guardian

    ‘Show a little courage’: Biden attacks Republicans for ‘caving’ to Trump on US-Mexico border security bill (opens The Guardian)

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    The Guardian's feed description

    Senate bill includes aid to Ukraine and Israel, as House tries to advance bill with Israel aid only, which Biden says he would veto

  20. Forbes

    Biden Blames Trump For Senate Border Bill’s Collapse As GOP Support Evaporates: ‘They’re Afraid Of Donald Trump’ (opens Forbes)

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    Forbes's feed description

    Biden, acknowledging the bill is unlikely to pass, placed the blame squarely on former President Donald Trump.

  21. Fox News

    Biden hoping border bill will purely help politically, senator says, amid Hamas, French gaffe firestorms (opens Fox News)

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    Fox News's feed description

    President Biden has come under fire for increasing gaffes and claims that his support of the Senate border bill is rooted in politics, not actual border security.

  22. Washington Examiner

    Biden tells Republicans (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Washington Examiner's feed description

    President Joe Biden chastised Congressional Republicans Tuesday for threatening to block his joint-border security and Ukraine security aid package, daring them to “show some spine” and not listen to former President Donald Trump.

Identical headlines usually mean shared wire copy. They are counted as separate articles but are not independent confirmation.

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