Elissa Slotkin: “The speaker of the House, the speaker of this body, wrote to…”

“We were at a moment where Democrats and Republicans here in the White House, in the Senate, across the, across the country were all saying that we needed to work on immigration. The speaker of the House, the speaker of this body, wrote to President Biden personally, saying that if the president wanted more things on Ukraine, it was, quote, dependent on enactment of transformative change to our nation's border security laws. His words. In the Senate, a group of Democrats and Republicans did what people pay them to do, what they actually expect them to do, which is sit in a room, negotiate, argue, debate over policy to deal with the extreme pressure on the border.” (02:46–03:03)

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