GOP cries foul on Dem border spending bill they say would drag out migrant crisis

Senate Republicans slammed their Democrat counterparts successful the enclosure for moving guardant with a "partisan" Homeland Security appropriations bill that they accidental has "substantial flaws" and volition permission the incoming Trump medication without the resources they request to hole the borderline crisis.

Senate Committee connected Appropriations ranking subordinate Susan Collins, R-Maine, said successful a connection that Democrats' enactment has led to a "unilateral determination from the Majority to station a partisan measurement connected a captious appropriations measure that is meant to assistance unafraid our borders and combat the surge of deadly fentanyl and different amerciable narcotics flooding our communities."

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Republicans slammed Democrats for unilaterally moving guardant a ‘partisan’ Homeland Security bill. (Reuters)

She slammed this decision, claiming it "undercuts our efforts implicit the past 2 years to scope bipartisan statement and let Senators an accidental to statement and amend appropriations bills."

Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., did not supply remark to Fox News Digital successful clip for publication. 

Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., the ranking subordinate of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, besides criticized the determination by Democrats. 

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U.S. Senator Patty Murray speaks aft the play Senate Democratic argumentation luncheon astatine the U.S. Capitol successful Washington, DC, connected Feb. 15, 2022.  (REUTERS/Jon Cherry)

"On a unilateral, partisan basis, Senate Democrats chose to station a Homeland Security measure that falls woefully abbreviated of what’s needed to combat America’s borderline situation and fortify interior migration enforcement," she said successful a statement. 

"Senate Democrats cognize [Trump] is going to instantly instrumentality enactment to cleanable up the Biden-Harris Administration’s messiness astatine the border, truthful alternatively of moving with Republicans to make a liable appropriations measure they chose to merchandise a merchandise that would permission a Trump Administration abbreviated of the resources they request to unafraid our border."

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Border Patrol picks up a radical of asylum seekers from an assistance campy astatine the US-Mexico borderline adjacent Sasabe, Arizona, connected Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (Justin Hamel/Getty Images)

Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., besides hammered the Democrats for advancing the bill. 

"Americans rejected unfastened borders, yet Senate Democrats propose: 

• $750 cardinal for resettling amerciable aliens
• CBP One app
• More $ for resettlement facilities
• Less $ for CBP Border Operations Democrats are utilizing their past 2 months to admit arsenic galore amerciable aliens arsenic possible," Hagerty wrote connected X.

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks during a quality league pursuing a Senate Democratic argumentation luncheon astatine the U.S. Capitol gathering connected March 20, 2024, successful Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The 11 different assorted appropriations bills precocious retired of committee this summertime with bipartisan enactment aft being debated. The Homeland Security measurement was the lone outstanding spending measurement that did not spell done the committee. 

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None of the idiosyncratic measures person been voted connected successful the Senate. It's unclear if oregon erstwhile Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer volition docket votes connected them. 

Schumer's bureau did not instantly supply remark to Fox News Digital.