Republicans Roll the Dice on the Border

With the border crisis entering an acute phase — one that has become an outright conflict between the states and the executive branch — the status of ongoing negotiations in Congress over a deal to address the crises America faces abroad is increasingly fluid.

“The politics on this have changed,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, according to Punchbowl News. In his estimation, the evolving border crisis combined with the near certainty that Donald Trump will emerge as the GOP’s presidential nominee for a third consecutive cycle have upended the Republican conference’s calculations.