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Former President Donald Trump said that Republicans should say \u2018No\u2019 to a border security deal that does not include \u2018everything needed\u2019 to stop the flow of illegal migrants at the southern border.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I do not think we should do a Border Deal, at all, unless we get EVERYTHING needed to shut down the INVASION of Millions & Millions of people, many from parts unknown, into our once great, but soon to be great again, Country!\u2019 Trump wrote Thursday on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

Congressional leaders are hoping to reach a bipartisan deal that would be attached to the national security supplemental package and unlock billions in funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters this week that a national security funding deal could come up for a vote as soon as next week.<\/p>\n

However, even though it will likely garner the 60 votes needed to pass in the upper chamber, it will be dead on arrival in the GOP-controlled House if it does not include Trump-era immigration penalties as outlined in H.R. 2 \u2014 the House\u2019s border security bill passed last year. McConnell has indicated that the priority is not just the border, but the other national security issues outlined in the package.<\/p>\n

\u2018The rest of the bill is important,\u2019 McConnell said this week. \u2018We\u2019re getting shot at. The Houthis are shooting at our ships, at commercial ships. We\u2019ve got a war in Israel, a war in Ukraine. I\u2019m sure the Chinese were unhappy with the outcome of the presidential election in Taiwan a few days ago.\u2019<\/p>\n

He added, \u2018I think it\u2019s time to go ahead with the supplemental, and I\u2019m anticipating it will be before us next week.\u2019<\/p>\n

Schumer and McConnell both agree that aid to Ukraine and border security should not be separated. The U.S. has already sent an estimated $100 billion to assist Ukraine in its defense against Russia, and the Biden administration has exhausted the amount of funds that can be sent to the Eastern European nation without needing Congress\u2019s approval in a final $200 million package last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is likely to be a showdown between a small group of GOP senators who oppose more aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., a staunch critic of more aid to Ukraine, said this week the U.S.\u2019s security \u2018is threatened right now on our border\u2019 and that leaders would \u2018much rather spend money on Ukraine\u2019s border than our own. I say again, it is exactly backwards \u2014 it\u2019s insane.\u2019<\/p>\n

But the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination has been in House Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s ear, too. Johnson said on Fox this week that he \u2018frequently\u2019 chats with Trump about the crisis at the southern border, and that he\u2019s \u2018not wrong\u2019 for telling lawmakers to reject a deal that falls short.<\/p>\n

\u2018President Trump is not wrong,\u2019 Johnson told Fox News host Laura Ingraham this week. \u2018He and I have been talking about this pretty frequently. I talked to him the night before last about the same subject.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, some conservatives in the upper chamber remain skeptical about the so-called border deal that still has not made it to paper.<\/p>\n

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said in a post on X, \u2018It\u2019s unfair to put pressure\u2019 on Johnson, \u2018or anyone else \u2014 to support a \u2018deal\u2019 that doesn\u2019t yet exist, the details of which remain cloaked in secrecy.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Lee agreed with Trump and said, \u2018But from what little we do know, no Republican should support it. This is nuts.\u2019<\/p>\n

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., shared a similar sentiment in an interview with Fox News Digital. He said that Biden doesn\u2019t need \u2018all these policy changes,\u2019 since the border \u2018was secure under Trump.\u2019 It\u2019s a matter of enforcement, he argued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The border was secure under Trump \u2014 he didn\u2019t need a policy change. I haven\u2019t seen the text of the bill, but there are some things that might be nice to have, but it\u2019s not going to secure the border this year,\u2019 Scott said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The package will need around 10 Republican votes to pass in the Senate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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