Senators are at an impasse in their negotiations on a bipartisan border security deal to be included in President Joe Biden’s supplemental defense spending bill.
The bipartisan group acknowledged the difficult reality to reporters on Thursday, with multiple members saying that negotiators were “stuck.” The comments were not entirely surprising, as negotiators had been cautioning for two days that progress was not being made.
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“It’s stuck. Bad,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), one of the members involved in the talks, told reporters on Thursday afternoon.
Asked if that meant the effort was dead, he replied: “I don’t know about dead. Nothing’s dead until it’s dead. I’m not asking for H.R. 2, but I do want parole to be changed.”
“In the bigger sense, we are stuck because…