HR2 is a very comprehensive bill and attacks the border problem on all fronts. It was not a stunt. I’ve read it...and it’s a huge bill
Well maybe calling it a stunt was a poor choice of words. But he has to know HR2 very likely won’t get consideration in the Senate or the WH - and now as of today we see the Senate released the text of their bill “allowing” 200,000 people a month to cross. It’s absurd, basically giving Biden’s poor executive action Congressional blessing. So absurd. Hopefully that Senate bill doesn’t even come up before the House.
Anyway it may not have been designed as a stunt and came from a place of principle, but it’s probably going nowhere and Johnson has to have known it. Even if it passed it would still be up to Biden to enforce it and we know he won’t. So why do it? Because they had to, and because the politics of it. It’s a huge issue and the voters need to know what the GOP will fight for if they can get control of the two chambers and the WH. That matters. Hence my overall thought that Johnson may be a better political tactician and effective speaker than many realize. Time will tell. But GOP Senators are mucking things up. I’m not entirely sure why they feel the need to give Biden this kind of cover on the #1 issue for GOP voters.