TUCSON — The Border Security Alliance spoke out after the $118.3 billion bipartisan border deal and foreign aid package did not receive the number of votes needed in the initial procedural vote for it to move forward.
The National Security Supplemental package was done in part by Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema.
The Senate voted 49-50 on proceeding with the bill, while 60 votes were needed in its favor. Four Republican senators voted to move it forward, while the rest of the GOP senators voted against it. It was also voted against by five democrats and independent Bernie Sanders.
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“We’re very disappointed that there wasn’t the vote to get it on the floor, just to debate the bill,” said Border Security Alliance President, Jobe Dickinson. “Not everything is perfect, with such a divided government and a small margin between the two parties there’s going to have to be compromise, there’s going to have to be debate… We at the Border Security Alliance really wish that the bill would have gone to the floor.”
