Johnson privately told House Republicans he would refuse Senate border deal, lawmaker says

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., privately told House Republicans that he won’t settle for no matter border safety deal comes out of present talks between the Senate and White House, a GOP lawmaker aware of the decision mentioned.

His GOP Conference held a convention name Sunday evening, when Johnson held agency on his place that the House would not again something lower than Republicans’ Secure the Border Act, often known as H.R.2, the lawmaker mentioned.

Fox News Digital was told that border safety negotiations turned the primary matter of debate, with lawmakers discussing the way to power passage of conservative border insurance policies. 

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Speaker Mike Johnson told GOP lawmakers that he would not settle for a border compromise from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s chamber as-is. (Getty Images)

It comes as a bipartisan group of senators is discussing what sort of border coverage compromises may very well be reached in trade for Republican help for Democrats’ $110 billion supplemental funding request for Ukraine, Israel and different humanitarian causes. 

Republicans on the decision had been told that the Senate is nearing a deal, the lawmaker mentioned. One has not but been introduced.

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Fox News Digital reached out to Johnson’s workplace for additional remark.

Johnson has maintained each in private and non-private that the House GOP’s default place is H.R.2, the immigration and border invoice that handed the House alongside celebration strains in May. 

Senator James Lankford is representing Republicans within the border safety negotiations. (Reuters)

The invoice, which features a return to Trump administration-era insurance policies like Remain in Mexico and development of a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, has been labeled a nonstarter by the Democrat-held Senate and White House.

Johnson pledged on the decision to “use every tool we can” to get H.R.2 handed, Fox News Digital was told. 

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A second GOP lawmaker told Fox News Digital after the decision, “I don’t think any Republican in the House wants the Senate deal.”

Immigrants from Venezuela stroll in the direction of a U.S. Border Patrol transit middle after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States on Jan. 8, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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“Where’s the border security in it? We need H.R.2 or a functional alternative, but the speaker makes a good point when he says the president unilaterally made over 60 policy changes that dismantled our border security and got us here,” the second lawmaker mentioned. “He can unilaterally fix it today without any legislative action.”

Last week, Johnson’s workplace put out a memo declaring 64 coverage selections by Biden and his officers that Republicans argue have undermined border safety over the past two years.