Eric Swalwell Hits GOP With Border Bill Reality Check: ‘Have You All Lost Your Minds?’

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) delivered a brutal actuality test to Republicans over the bipartisan border invoice Wednesday by naming the explanation they oppose it.

“Let me bring everybody back to reality and give you a little history lesson. The reason you oppose the bill is not because you have any policy issues with it… You oppose it because Donald Trump opposes it,” mentioned Swalwell at a House Judiciary Committee markup assembly.

He continued, “Donald Trump opposes it because Donald Trump wants to be president because Donald Trump has 91 felony counts that he’s facing and the only way that those go away and he is not held accountable is if he’s president.”

Senate Republicans blocked the invoice final month after Trump urged them to not again it, with some GOP lawmakers declaring {that a} border deal would profit President Joe Biden forward of the November election.

Swalwell took purpose at Republicans who comply with Trump, claiming that the previous president needs “the issue, not the solution.”

“Have you all lost your minds?” requested Swalwell as he famous that Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), the “second-most conservative member of the Senate,” was the prime GOP negotiator for the invoice.

“He wrote the toughest border security bill that has come out of the Senate and President Biden engaged with him with other Democrats to find a solution because they’re in the solutions business and you’re in the chaos business.”