Posted 3/1/2024, 11:57:57 PM
Lankford Accuses Fellow Republicans of Political Betrayal After Border Bill Failure
- Lankford says fellow Republicans "turned around and sacked" him when they rejected the carefully negotiated border security and Ukraine aid bill he helped craft
- Lankford maintains that he had fully briefed all Republican senators on details of the bill 5 weeks prior, so claims of surprise or shock were disingenuous
- Only 3 other Republicans - Collins, Murkowski, Romney - voted with Lankford to advance the compromise bill
- Lankford believes the party base increasingly prefers getting nothing over having to compromise to get something
- After the border bill failed, the Senate passed Ukraine aid without border provisions but the House hasn't taken it up yet