GOP rep grilled after denying he ever said Trump 'failed on immigration'

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) smacked down the bipartisan US border security bill Monday — just three hours after supporting the legislation, and after weeks negotiating between Democratic and GOP senators.

Ahead of the bill's failure, CNN's Kaitlan Collins interviewed US Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), asking, "Is the argument here, congressman, that essentially you're not gonna pass this. If this fails, nothing happens on Capitol Hill. What's the backup plan? Is it to wait 350 days and hope that Trump potentially is inaugurated as president? Because you criticized how he handled immigration. You said he failed on immigration. You said he failed on immigration the last time he was in office. So why do you think it will be different this time if he was elected?"

The Texas lawmaker replied, "First of all, it's all relative. I mean, President Trump was working hard to move the numbers down in his presidency. We just didn't get the permanent legislative fixes that I wanted. You remember that's what I was saying on the stump. I wanted to get the permanent changes."

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Collins emphasized, "Yeah, you said he failed on that."

Roy insisted, "Well, we didn't get that done then, right. But the [President Joe] Biden administration has no interest in getting the numbers where they need to be, which is, in fact, zero. What we need to have is zero releases. You detain or you turn away. If you do that, the flow stops. We don't have a crisis. We don't have kids getting abused and you can actually manage the numbers. And the fact is what Republicans should do is send over to the senate hr-2 package, abiding to the caps that passed on a bipartisan basis that would reduce spending by about $40 billion over last year's spending levels and send it over to the senate. I don't know if the speaker will do that, but that's what i would do if I were the speaker. And I would have to force the Senate to have to deal with it."

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