Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) took a dig at former President Trump in a House floor speech on Tuesday, denying the former president’s claim that any executive could unilaterally close the southern border.
Trump’s comments in a social media post Tuesday came after House Republicans shut down a bipartisan Senate border security bill, claiming that President Biden should instead unilaterally stop all migrants from entering the U.S. using executive orders.
“No, we’re not just going to pass the buck and say that, ‘Oh, any president can walk in and secure the border,’” Roy said, referring to Trump’s post. “All a president has to do is declare the border’s closed, and it’s closed. Well, with all due respect, that didn’t happen in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. There were millions of people that came in the United States during those four years.”
But Roy did compliment the Trump administration for work to secure the border, even without the total shut down Trump advocated for on Tuesday.
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Rep. Chip Roy took a dig at former President Trump in a House floor speech, denying the former president's claim that any executive could unilaterally close the southern border https://t.co/ui56ea8Rm7 pic.twitter.com/HaAiG3AW6v
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Roy: "I saw former President Trump make that allegation earlier today on one of his social media posts. All a president has to do is declare the border’s closed and it’s closed. Well, with all due respect, that didn’t happen in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. There were millions of…
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