Karine Jean-Pierre And Fox News Correspondent Go Head To Head Over Senate Border Security Package

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During a White House Press Briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre answered reporter questions on the current proposed bill on border security.

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00:00 Jackie. On the border bill, Schumer isn't even allowing amendments and this exact text failed before.

00:06 So how can this be seen as anything other than a cynical attempt to try to show

00:11 Americans that Democrats care about the border? I mean, I don't know how cynical, I don't understand how that would be cynical when

00:18 sounds like Senator Schumer is trying to do his job and move forward a piece of legislation that had bipartisan support

00:26 that was a that was negotiated in a bipartisan way that majority of Americans care about.

00:31 He's trying to move that forward on behalf of not just

00:35 obviously not just of what the negotiators wanted to get done in that bipartisan way

00:41 but also this is something that the American people want to see. They want Congress to take action on this particular issue.

00:47 I'm not sure how cynical, why that would be cynical.

00:49 Well, because this exact text failed and he's not allowing for any changes.

00:53 Look, I'm gonna let Senator Schumer do the work and move that forward.

00:58 It is his decision to make that decision. We support it, obviously.

01:02 We've been very clear about supporting that, about wanting to see that negotiation, that plan move forward.

01:07 We want to see that happen. We want to see that happen. Now it's up to Republicans

01:12 to decide, to decide if they want to deal with this issue that matters, again, to majority of Americans.

01:19 You opened the briefing by saying it's up to Republicans to do something to solve the problem

01:23 or continue to use it as a political issue.

01:26 The president has the authority to do something about this unilaterally.

01:30 Congress is in a divided government right now. Why isn't he doing anything?

01:35 Why should he have to do it unilaterally? Why, why shouldn't we do it in a legislative way?

01:40 And let's not forget that negotiated...

01:42 He took unilateral action before to undo some of it.

01:44 Wait, so you're right. He took many executive actions before.

01:49 But in order to deal with what's happening at the border, in order to deal with a broken

01:53 immigration system, you need law. You need legislation. You need it to happen in a bipartisan way.

02:00 And there was negotiate, it was negotiated. There was an agreement in the Senate.

02:05 Republicans and Democrats came together. You just said it's a broken, it's broken,

02:10 it's divided, to be more clear. And they came and they did that.

02:14 And so that matters. We've been able during this past three and a half years to move forward in a

02:19 bipartisan way on many legislation. So this one is important. Why can't we do that here?

02:24 Well, just because in the framework through which it's coming up again, again,

02:28 not allowing for any changes, no indication this vote's going to be any different.

02:31 And it looks like, if anything, bringing up this vote again and setting it up to fail again

02:39 is really just an indication that Democrats know that they're vulnerable on this issue.

02:44 So here's what I'll say, is that I'm going to leave it to Senator Schumer. I'm going to leave

02:48 it to Senate leadership to speak to the votes, to speak to the process and how they're going

02:53 to move forward. That is literally something for them to talk about. What I will say is,

02:58 it is long past time to get this done, to get this moving. We were able to get a bipartisan

03:03 negotiation, a plan forward on an issue that many Americans care about, an issue that matters for

03:10 our immigration system, for what's happening at the border, and that's a good thing. And so

03:15 Senator Schumer, and we support this, wants to move this forward. We want to see this move forward

03:19 as well. The Senator is very good at this. He's very good at dealing with big legislation,

03:27 obviously, as we've been able to move important legislation through over the past three and a

03:32 half years. So I'm going to let him speak to that.

Karine Jean-Pierre And Fox News Correspondent Go Head To Head Over Senate Border Security Package

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