Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Newsmax on Tuesday he blamed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., 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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