'Not A Political Issue To Be Weaponized': Biden Bashes Trump While Announcing Actions On The Border

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President Biden delivered remarks on Tuesday and took shots at former President Donald Trump and his rhetoric on the border.

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00:00 >> Good afternoon.

00:01 I've come here today to do what the Republicans in Congress

00:06 refuse to do --

00:07 take the necessary steps to secure our border.

00:10 Four months ago, after weeks of intense negotiation

00:15 between my staff and Democrats and Republicans,

00:18 we came to a clear, clear bipartisan deal.

00:22 It was the strongest border security agreement in decades.

00:27 But then, Republicans in Congress --

00:29 not all of them -- walked away from it.

00:32 Why? Because Donald Trump told them to.

00:34 He told the Republicans --

00:37 it has been published widely by many of you --

00:39 that he didn't want to fix the issue;

00:41 he wanted to use it to attack me.

00:43 That's what he wanted to do. It was a cynical --

00:46 and an extremely cynical political move

00:49 and a complete disservice to the American people

00:52 who are looking for us to --

00:54 not to weaponize the border, but to fix it.

00:57 Today, I'm joined by a bipartisan group of governors,

01:00 members of Congress, mayors, law enforcement officials,

01:04 most of whom live and work along the southern border.

01:07 They know the border is not a political issue

01:10 to be weaponized --

01:12 responsibility we have to share to do something about it.

01:15 They don't have time for the games played in Washington,

01:18 and neither do the American people.

01:21 So, today, I'm moving past Republican obstruction

01:24 and using the executive authorities

01:25 available to me as President

01:27 to do what I can on my own to address the border.

01:30 Frankly, I would have preferred to address this issue

01:34 through bipartisan legislation,

01:35 because that's the only way to actually get the kind of system

01:40 we have now that's broken, fixed,

01:42 to hire more Border Patrol agents,

01:44 more asylum officers, more judges.

01:46 But Republicans have left me with no choice.

'Not A Political Issue To Be Weaponized': Biden Bashes Trump While Announcing Actions On The Border

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