The bottom line is that everyone who looks at our
bill says that it will greatly reduce the flow of
illegal immigrants into this country.
And that and and it's done in a in a
fairway.
And that was Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer touting the
bipartisan border security bill that he helped.
Right. It also gives money to Ukraine,
to Israel, Gaza and the Indo Pacific region.
It includes 50,000 new visas every year issued in America.
It includes a border shutdown only after encounters average 5000
people a day.
I spoke with former President Trump about the Senate deal
on Sunday Morning Futures.
Here's what he said. Watch.
You can't do a bad deal.
The deal they're looking at is terrible.
It's no good, and it's no good for the Republicans.
And frankly, any Republican that signs it should be ashamed
of himself or herself.
I think we have a chance.
New York has changed a lot in the last two
years.
We have migrants all over the street.
They're living on Madison Ave.
I mean, nobody can believe what's happened to New York.
The people of New York are angry people that would
have never voted for me because I'm a Republican.
I mean, they're Democrats. Their parents.
Would they vote for Democrats?
I think they're going to vote for me.
Join me right now is North Carolina Congressman Greg Murphy,
a member of the House Ways and Means Committee and
the Co chairman of the GOP Doctors Caucus.
Congressman, good to see you.
Thanks so much for being here this morning.
Yeah. Have you been able to read some of this
text from the Senate border deal?
Yeah, I've read some of it this morning.
And you know, my initial,
my initial thought is sometimes that there are a few
things in here I think are good.
There's a few things with implementation that are going to
be difficult.
The whole thing is, Maria,
this should never needed to happen
If there were essentially 5 things that Biden could do
today to fix the border crisis.
And what he's doing is he's shirking his duties over
to Congress.
So he's going to protect his left and then them
come up with a border bill.
One of the issues also is,
you know, I the implementation is going to be DHS
and you know, gosh, I I as a physician,
seeing what Becerra has done or rather not done with
the No Surprises Act that we passed out a couple
years ago and that he's rewritten the law himself,
really gives me great pause that this will be implemented
at all.
Yeah. I mean, what about this element that 5000 people
have to be coming in and countered before the border
shuts down,
before you could do anything about it.
How do you, how do you read that one?
I I don't know because are they sitting there with
a little clicker on the entire border,
Arizona, you know,
Texas and everything? You know,
in in theory, it actually would make OK sense.
If there's a certain amount reached,
all of a sudden it gets slammed down and then
you have to have only 1200 come in.
But I I think in in effect that's exceedingly difficult
to put in.
The other thing, Maria, is there's nothing about the wall,
there's no building, there's no restoring of the building of
our border.
You know, it doesn't have to be a physical wall,
but there's nothing in there about containing an electronic wall
or anything else that the least that I've seen.
So reading it so far.
So how will you vote on this if it reaches
the House?
You know, I I haven't fully decided yet because,
you know, I'm not one of those ones who's going
to say something's dead without fully reading it.
I feel that that's that's the smart thing to do.
That's what my my constituents would want do.
But you know, the fact that now they're doing it
this at the 11th hour when they should have done
it 2 1/2 years ago
makes me have great reason to pause.
Well, the Speaker of the House,
Mike Johnson, yesterday tweeted out that it's even worse than
he thought.
And even before he saw the tax,
he said he doesn't believe President Biden is really calling
the shots when it comes to the border and it's
dead on arrival.
Watch this. Yeah.
Instead he said things like give me the power,
give me, give me a bet.
He knows that he has the authority.
We've documented it for him.
I don't think he's allowed to do it.
I'm not sure Joe Biden is actually making these decisions.
I think it's staff around him and they're they're they're
pushing him to hold the OR to keep the the
the border open.
But when you're hearing all of this conversation about 5000
people being let in before anything gets done,
tell me where your priorities are and what needs to
be in this and is it a no go if
those things are not in it?
Yeah, it's a no go if if what we're being
told is true,
it's a no go in the house.
And I've. I've made that very clear to everybody involved.
You know, Congressman, I don't understand why they didn't use
HR2 as a benchmark. OK
Greg Murphy, are you with us?
Yes, ma'am. I'm sorry. Say that again.
I said I don't understand why
the Senate did not start with HR two,
since you all passed that already in the House.
I don't know. It was a great bill that we
sent over there.
And they, Chuck Schumer seemed to just throw it out
the window and not and not see that that had
any reason to be to be used.
This is where we needed to start,
you know, And as Speaker Johnson said,
Mike, the the border could be stopped today if President
Biden had just had just done five things.
It's very simple, very simple.
Do you agree that somebody else is directing President Biden
that he's actually not running things?
Absolutely. I thought that pretty much since day one.
I think this is Obama's third term.
I think it's his progressive staff.
Joe Biden, the president now is nothing like Joe Biden
the senator has ever been.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott joined me yesterday on Sunday Morning
Futures,
and he's warning about the impact of
Biden's agenda overall. In particular,
he wanted to talk about the pause on
Biden's liquefied natural gas export.
Watch this.
Texas is a leading LNG exporter for one.
But for another, countries across the globe count on us
for energy ranging from
the European region that that if they don't get our
LNG,
they may have to once again rely upon Russia for
their natural gas supplies.
Also, there's other countries like India and other countries across
the globe where if they do not get our LNG,
they may have to revert back to using coal,
which obviously provides more air pollution than natural gas does.
And so I got to tell you,
the decision by Joe Biden literally makes no sense whatsoever.
So, Congressman, it's not just about the border that we've
got critics talking about regarding Joe Biden's agenda.
It's also this climate change agenda.
And what he's doing to the fossil fuel industry,
well, he's not doing it.
And I'll in this particular instance,
I'm sure it's Secretary Granholm doing it,
which she has no clue.
You know, guess what, Things go around the entire earth.
And if we don't produce it cleaner and cheaper here
in the United States,
other countries, to the, to the
governor's point, are going to start making this.
And they'll be Russia and then they'll be much,
much dirtier. You know, these liberal elites who think that
if we clean up just the United States to make
the rest of the world dirtier,
it's going to help climate change.
You know, it's just absolutely ridiculous.
Yeah. All right, Congressman, we'll be watching your work on
all of this.
Thanks very much for joining me this morning.
All right. Thank you.