Joe Biden claims his predecessor, Donald Trump, was blocking a bipartisan national security agreement.
Washington:
U.S. President Joe Biden claimed on Tuesday that his predecessor, Donald Trump, was blocking a bipartisan National Security Agreement that would provide military aid to Ukraine, organize Indo-Pacific countries against China and provide for immigration Crisis provides comprehensive solutions.
“All indications are that this bill won’t even make it to the Senate. Why? The reason is simple, Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump thinks this is bad for him politically, so, you know, if this is For the country, he wasn’t for it.
“He’d rather weaponize this issue than actually solve it, so in the last 24 hours, I’m told, he’s done nothing but contact House and Senate Republicans to threaten them and try to intimidate them into voting against it. This proposal,” Biden said in an address to the nation from the White House.
Over the weekend, congressional leaders unveiled a White House-backed bipartisan agreement that would automatically provide work authorization to about 100,000 H-4 visa holders, the spouses and children of certain H-1B visa holders. . The National Security Agreement, announced on Sunday after lengthy negotiations between the Republican and Democratic leadership of the U.S. Senate, also provides a solution for the approximately 250,000 overage children of H-1B visa holders.
The move is good news for thousands of Indian tech professionals who are going through a long and arduous wait for green cards, without which their spouses are unable to work and their elderly children face deportation threats.
“Tear up the Senate immigration bill,” Trump told his supporters on Tuesday. “Throw it in the trash. Throw it away,” he said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters on Tuesday that things have changed since the bipartisan national security deal was announced.
McConnell told Republican senators ahead of border security talks that immigration policy unites Republicans while Ukraine aid divides them, Punch Bowl News reported.
“The politics on this have changed,” he said, adding that was because Trump wanted to focus on immigration in his 2024 campaign. “We don’t want to do anything to weaken him,” McConnell said.
Biden told Americans that if Congress fails to pass the ambitious bill because of Trump’s opposition, he will take the issue to the people.
“It looks like they (Republicans) are giving in. Frankly, they should show the American people some courage and do what they think is right. So I want to tell the American people what this bill is about and why everyone on Wall Street is doing this The daily newspapers, the Border Patrol, the Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce all support this bill,” he asserted.
He said Republicans must decide who they serve, Donald Trump or the American people? “Are they here to solve problems, or are they just weaponizing these problems for political purposes? I know my answer. I serve the American people. I’m here to solve problems.” “But if this bill fails, I Want to make one thing absolutely clear, the American people are going to know why it failed. I’m going to take this issue across the country. Voters are going to know that this isn’t just an issue right now, we’re going to secure the border and fund these other programs. ,” Biden said.
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