On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) forced Democrats to block two border and immigration bills in an effort to show how 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris had flip-flopped on policy since her 2020 presidential run and how the Democratic Party felt about protecting the U.S. southern border.
Some of Harris' changed stances include her support for decriminalizing illegal border crossings, a ban on fracking and mandatory buy-back programs for so-called "assault weapons."
"I'm headed to the Senate Floor to see if Senate Democrats really believe that Vice President Harris has changed her position on fracking, building the wall, securing the border, and keeping criminals off of American streets," Britt wrote on Twitter Wednesday morning.
Per Axios, "Britt will try to pass two bills through unanimous consent: One that would provide billions of dollars to build the border wall and another that would detain migrants arrested for theft."
"The second bill —named the Laken Riley Act after a nursing student killed by an immigrant early this year — was cosponsored by Democrats' most vulnerable senator, Jon Tester (Mont.)," the outlet continued, adding that just one Democrat could prevent the bills' passage.
On the Senate floor, Britt said the vote would paint a clear picture of where the Democrats stand.
"Do they support building a border wall, or will they block building a border wall? Do they want to spend taxpayer funds funding illegal border crossers? Where does the vice president's party stand on these very different policy positions? Well, we're about to find out," she declared.
The vote comes as Senate Republicans and Democrats butt heads over Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) "show votes" after Democrats blocked a bill by Britt and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to protect access to in-vitro fertility (IVF) treatment services.
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