Cavalier Johnson: “Joe Biden worked very closely with one of the most…”

“Overall, the federal government has simply failed us on immigration policy. And I'm old enough to remember when this election was getting started, this past presidential election, and when Joe Biden worked very closely with one of the most conservative members of the United States Senate, Senator Lankford out of Oklahoma, on a bill to strengthen border security and immigration policy of the United States. And unfortunately, and I think this is unfortunate because it needs to be fixed, Donald Trump, the president, when he was running at the time, called up members of Congress and said, don't support that because that hurts him politically.” (15:04–15:32)

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