A GOP congressman who’s railed against the bipartisan Senate deal to bolster border security admitted on Tuesday that the perspectives of Border Patrol agents and the acting chief of the Customs and Border Protection agency—both of which would enforce the proposed legislation, and both of which have endorsed it— don’t matter.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) made the slip to Fox News’ Steve Doocy on Fox & Friends, where Doocy acknowledged that the House Republican Caucus opposed the legislation that the Senate spent months negotiating because Donald Trump came out against it.
“But, here’s the problem for you guys,” Doocy said. “The border patrol union came out and the acting CBP chief both came out and said, ‘It’s not perfect, but this is the best thing we have seen in decades.’ So, are Republicans going to say that the Border Patrol union and the acting CBP chief are wrong?”