What's in the Senate Border Bill and Will It Pass?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The Senate's bipartisan border security bill negotiated by Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford is the most restrictive in decades. How does it change current law, would it limit migration, and how are the politics playing out on the right and left? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,
0:40.0	this is Potomac Watch.
0:42.0	Senate negotiators late Sunday report. This is Potomac Watch.
0:50.0	Senate negotiators, late Sunday, released the text of their bill on border security and military aid to allies. But does it have any chance of passing?
0:53.4	James Lankford, Republican Kirsten Cinema, the Independent, and Chris Murphy, the Democrat
0:57.6	released the text after months of their negotiation.
1:00.8	President Biden and Mitch McConnell both endorsed the bill but critics on the GOP right
1:06.1	and the Democratic left are already attacking it for different reasons even before
1:11.2	they have had a chance to fully read it.
1:13.7	We'll talk about the merits and the politics of this bill and the border security issue in today's
1:19.0	Potomag Watch Podcast.
1:21.0	Welcome to you all.
1:22.1	I'm Paul as you go with the Wall Street Journal
1:24.2	editorial page and I'm here with Kim Strassal and Kate Bachelor who have been
1:28.1	following this negotiation all along and trying to delve into this very long bill 380 pages
1:35.0	280 pages of it are on border security and since the final draft was released
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