I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Thursday, May 23rd.

Here are today's headlines. The Senate voted today on a very contested border bill. The Higher Chamber

voted on it for the first time back in February, it failed then and it failed

again today. On both the yeas are 43, the nays are 50,

three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn having not voted in the affirmative.

The motion is not agreed to. The bill was originally negotiated between

Republicans and Democrats Republican Senator James Lankford, Democrat

Senator Chris Murphy, and independent Senator Kristen Cinema originally negotiated Chris and Cinema

originally negotiated that bill.

But even Lankford and Cinema voted against it today,

criticizing the vote

for being politically motivated. In total, 50 senators voted no and 43 voted yes,

which fell far below that 60 vote threshold

that would have been needed to advance the bill.

Republicans have bashed this piece of legislation for doing little to nothing to secure

the border.

Republican Senator Ron Johnson said the bill spends 20 billion to not secure the border,

but to more efficiently encounter process and disperse illegal migrants.

As written, the bill allows up to 5,000 disperse illegal aliens

aliens daily to cross the border within a seven day period.

The bill's failure was anticipated following Republicans outspoken criticism of it.

And even if the bill had passed, Republican House leadership had already said it was dead on

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