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FOX News: Biden hoping border bill will purely help politically, senator says, amid Hamas, French gaffe firestorms

February 6, 2024

Biden recently confused French President Emmanuel Macron with former President Francois Mitterrand, who died 28 years ago President Biden’s vocal support for the Sinema-Murphy-Lankford border bill is rooted in hopes of solving his political problems, not national security issues, a top Republican claimed. The claim came in the wake of incidents where Biden appeared to commit substantive gaffes or be seeking the proper term in several silent moments, which other observers said simply adds to his political conundrums and fuels questions about his cognitive abilities. National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Steve Daines, R-Mont., told Fox News the issue with current border control

Daines: “How is This Even Serious?”

January 23, 2024

Condemns Biden Administration for Policies Allowing Illegal Immigrants to Board Planes Without Valid ID WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today delivered remarks at the weekly Republican Senate Leadership press conference condemning the Biden administration for allowing illegal immigrants to board airplanes without any required personal information. To watch, click HERE. “The American people know that if you head to the airport, you want to jump on a flight here in the United States, you bring a valid form of ID. I always use my Montana driver’s license. I imagine some of you, maybe it’s even happened to you, you show up at

Daines Backs Comprehensive Border Security Bill to End Biden’s Historic Southern Border Crisis

September 26, 2023

U.S. SENATE – U.S.Senator Steve Daines cosponsored the “Secure the Border Act” to resume construction on the border wall, tighten asylum standards, criminalize visa overstays, increase the number of Border Patrol Agents, defund organizations receiving tax dollars to help traffic illegal aliens, prohibit Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from using its app to assist illegal aliens and more. The bill has passed the House of Representatives as H.R. 2 and is the most comprehensive border security bill in decades. “President Biden’s dangerous open border has allowed Montana to become a northern border state with a southern border crisis,” said Daines.“On Day One Biden rolled back

Daines Calls for Mexican Drug Cartels to be Labeled Terrorist Organizations on Fox’s The Story with Martha MacCallum

March 29, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C.— U.S. Senator Steve Daines appeared on Fox’s The Story with Marth MacCallum to discuss the national security threat posed by Mexican drug cartels and the bill he helped introduce to designate them foreign terrorist organizations. Daines on his bill to designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations: “Look, enough is enough. These Mexican cartels are invading our country and they’re spreading fentanyl, methamphetamines across our communities. One hundred thousand Americans now are dying every year because of this. That’s equivalent to having a major airliner crash every day in our country. Ninety percent of those drugs are coming