'No Real Chance': McConnell Admits Failure on Border Bill

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell waved a rhetorical white flag Tuesday, admitting the bipartisan supplemental spending package was doomed fewer than 48 hours after its text was revealed.

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“It’s been made pretty clear to us by the [House] speaker [Mike Johnson] that it will not become law,” the 81-year-old Kentuckian bluntly conceded to reporters.

“It looks to me and to most our members as if we have no real chance here to make a law,” McConnell added.

Ed Morrissey

It should have been made pretty clear by Johnson and House Republicans that this weak-sauce bill had no chance from the beginning. This is a failure that rests entirely on McConnell and his team. 

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