周一，在众议院议长迈克·约翰逊领导下的众议院共和党人推动该协议在众议院通过之前就遭到否决后，三名参议员为该协议进行了辩护。这三名参议员通过谈判达成了一项两党法案，该法案将加强边境安全和移民执法，同时授权向以色列、台湾和乌克兰提供更多援助。
俄克拉荷马州共和党参议员詹姆斯·兰克福德、康涅狄格州民主党参议员克里斯·墨菲和亚利桑那州民主党参议员凯尔斯滕·西内马花了几个月的时间谈判1182.8亿美元的两党国家安全补充方案》的文章，其文本于周日晚间发布。
该文本发布几小时后，约翰逊将其击落，并在一份声明中表示该票据“到达时已失效”“甚至比我们预期的还要糟糕，而且不会接近结束总统制造的边境灾难。”
众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯表示，这项立法甚至不会在众议院进行投票。
周一，约翰逊告诉记者，参议院的法案没有达到“解决问题所需的标准”。
谈判人员表示，他们希望该方案能够在参议院获得通过，如果获得通过，他们承认该方案在众议院将面临坎坷。
“我希望我们能在参议院通过这项法案，”民主党首席谈判代表墨菲对美国广播公司新闻高级国会记者雷切尔·斯科特说。“我认为约翰逊议长不顾一切地阻止这项法案提交众议院，因为他不想处理这项法案，他知道如果这项法案到达……众议院，将有很大的压力要求它通过。”
墨菲补充说:“我们的工作首先是在参议院通过该法案，这是我们本周要努力做到的。”
民主党边境安全谈判首席谈判代表克里斯·墨菲接受记者采访
J.斯科特·阿普怀特/美联社，文件
前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)希望在11月的移民问题上竞选，他向共和党人施加了巨大压力，要求他们拒绝该协议-这让共和党谈判代表陷入了一个不可能的境地。特朗普周一在他的社交媒体频道上分别发文称，边境协议是“共和党的死亡愿望”和“共和党为激进左翼民主党对我们边境所做的事情承担责任的高度复杂的陷阱”。
出现在丹·邦吉诺秀周一，特朗普批评了边境协议，抓住围绕该协议的言论不放，称该协议将允许每天5000名移民进入美国。兰克福德认为这种说法是错误的。
“这项法案是一场灾难。这项法案每天可能会有5000人进入我们的国家。这说不通。这个我不知道。我以为这是个错字。我认为他们打错了，”特朗普说。
“这太疯狂了。这个法案太疯狂了。你知道是什么吗?这是给民主党的礼物，”这位前总统补充道。
墨菲没有回避声称他的共和党同事在这个问题上屈服于特朗普的影响。
墨菲说:“去年秋天，我看到我在参议院的所有共和党同事都站起来说，除非在边境问题上达成两党协议，否则我们不会支持对乌克兰的援助。”“我们达成了两党协议。它赋予总统控制边境的真正权力，许多参议院共和党人人将反对这项法案，因为它太有效了，因为唐纳德·特朗普告诉他们，“不，在边境保持混乱，不要解决问题，因为这对我们来说是好的政治。”这对国家真的很不利。"
参议院将在本周晚些时候开始推进这项立法，周三将进行程序性投票。需要60名参议员支持该方案才能通过。
墨菲告诉周一早上MSNBC的《早安乔》“大约有25个”参议院共和党人人正在仔细考虑是否支持这项立法。他们中至少有九人需要支持该法案才能在本周晚些时候在参议院推进，尽管可能会有更多的共和党人需要支持该法案，因为预计会有多名民主党人倒戈。
兰克福德发现自己正处于一场政治风暴中，因为他在帮助起草的边境协议上抵挡了包括前总统在内的共和党同僚的批评。
兰克福德告诉斯科特:“我认为每个人都将自己决定他们的发展方向。”“总统有他正在努力完成的事情:他正在努力重新当选为美国总统。我正在努力完成一件事:现在就保护国家和我们的边境。所以他现在有他的目的，我也有我的目的。”
兰克福德说，对大多数美国人来说，边境计划是一个无党派问题，他们“只想要一个安全的边境”。
他呼吁他的同事仔细阅读该法案，并努力达成协议。
“实际上，我们将在未来的日子里找到答案，因为成员们会看它、读它、审查它，并决定我们是要修改它还是放弃它。每个人都必须能够就此做出决定，但现在可以公开讨论，美国人民和国会议员可以看着它说‘让我们做点什么或什么都不做’，我们现在必须弄清楚这一点。”
在CBS新闻节目中周日“面向全国”西内玛说，她认为约翰逊在有充分机会了解该法案、提出问题并观看参议院辩论后，可以被“说服”支持该法案。
西内马说，需要变革来应对南部边境的“国家安全威胁”。
她说:“虽然现任政府确实对边境处理不当负有责任，但我们必须赋予政府新的法律工具，并让他们负责实施这些工具，以阻止这场危机。”
周一在参议院，少数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔(Mitch McConnell)支持该法案，强调了南部边境的威胁以及俄罗斯、伊朗和中国构成的国际威胁。
麦康奈尔在会上说:“现在是国会就最终直面这些行动的补充国家安全立法采取行动的时候了。”
在法案文本发布之前，多数党领袖查克·舒默周日表示支持边境一揽子计划-并表示他和麦康奈尔步调一致。
舒默对记者说:“我和麦康奈尔领导人在许多问题上存在分歧，但我们从未在立法问题上如此密切地合作，因为我们都意识到形势的严重性以及通过这项立法的重要性。”
他说，现在是立法者团结起来支持这项重要的边境安全计划的时候了。
舒默说:“我们不能让政治阻碍这项立法的通过。”“参议员们不得不淹没政治和政客们的噪音，他们告诉他们不要出于政治目的投票支持这项法案。”
Senate negotiators defend bipartisan border deal under fire from House GOP
The three senators who negotiated a bipartisan bill that would beef up border security and immigration enforcement while authorizing more assistance to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine on Monday defended the package after House Republicans -- led by Speaker Mike Johnson -- are pushing to squash the deal before it even gets to the lower chamber.
Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., worked for months to negotiate the terms ofthe $118.28 billion bipartisan national security supplemental package, the text of which was released Sunday night.
Hours after the text's release, Johnson shot it down, saying in a statement thatthe bill is "dead on arrival"and "even worse than we expected, and won't come close to ending the border catastrophe the President created."
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said the legislation will not even receive a vote in the House.
On Monday, Johnson told reporters that the Senate's bill does not meet "the criteria that's necessary to solve the problem."
The negotiators said they are hopeful that the package will pass the Senate and, if it passes, acknowledged that it faces a bumpy road in the House.
"I am hopeful that we'll pass this bill through the Senate," Murphy, the top Democratic negotiator, said to ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott. "I think Speaker Johnson is desperate to stop this bill from coming to the House of Representatives because he doesn't want to deal with it and he knows there will be a lot of pressure for it to pass if it reaches … the House."
"Our job is first to pass it through the Senate and that is what we are going to try to do this week," Murphy added.
Former President Donald Trump, who wants to run on immigration in November has put immense pressure on Republicans to reject the deal -- putting Republican negotiators in an impossible scenario. Trump called the border deal a "death wish for the Republican Party" and "a highly sophisticated trap for Republicans to assume the blame on what the Radical Left Democrats have done to our Border," in separate posts on his social media channel Monday.
In an appearance on theDan Bongino Showon Monday, Trump criticized the border deal, latching on to rhetoric surrounding the deal that it would allow 5,000 migrants into the country a day. Lankford has dismissed this narrative as false.
"This bill is a disaster. This bill has 5,000 people a day potentially coming into our country. It doesn't make sense. I don't know this. I thought it was a typo. I thought they made a typo," Trump said.
"This is crazy. This is lunacy, this bill. And you know what it is? It's a gift to the Democrats," the former president added.
Murphy did not shy away from claiming his GOP colleagues were bending the knee to Trump's influence on this issue.
"I watched all of my Republican colleagues in the Senate stand up last fall and say we are not going to support Ukraine aid unless you get a bipartisan deal on the border," Murphy said. "We got that bipartisan deal. It gives the president real powers to control the border and many Senate Republicans are going to oppose this bill because it is too effective, because Donald Trump is telling them, 'No keep chaos at the border, don't solve the problem because that is good politics for us.' Well that is really bad for the country."
The Senate will begin moving forward with the legislation later this week beginning with a procedural vote on Wednesday. Sixty senators will need to support the package for it to pass.
Murphy toldMSNBC's "Morning Joe" Monday morningthat there are "about 25" Senate Republicans who are carefully considering whether or not to support the legislation. At least nine of them will need to support the bill for it to move forward in the Senate later this week, although likely more Republicans will need to back the bill as it's expected that multiple Democrats will defect.
Lankford has found himself in the middle of a political storm as he fends off criticisms from his own Republican colleagues -- including the former president -- on the border deal that he helped craft.
"I think everybody is going to make their own decision on that what direction they're going to go," Lankford told Scott. "The president has something he is trying to accomplish: he is trying to get elected back to be the president of the United States. I've got something I'm trying to accomplish: it's securing the nation and our borders right now. So he's got his purposes right now, I've got mine."
A plan for the border is a nonpartisan issue for most Americans, who "just want a secure border," Lankford said.
He called on his colleagues to read the bill thoroughly and work to come to an agreement.
"We're going to find out actually in the days ahead as members look at it read it review it as we determine if we're going to amend it or walk away from it. Everybody has got to be able to make their decisions on that, but it's open now to conversation and the American people and members of Congress can look at it and say 'let's do something or let's do nothing' -- and we've got to figure that out right now."
On the CBS News program"Face the Nation" Sunday, Sinema said she thinks Johnson can be "persuaded" to support the bill after he has had ample opportunity to understand the bill, ask question and watch the debate in the Senate.
Sinema said change is needed to address a "national security threat" at the southern border.
"While the current administration does bear responsibility for mishandling the border, we have to give new legal tools to the administration and hold them accountable to implement them in order to stop this crisis," she said.
On the Senate floor Monday, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell endorsed the bill, highlighting the threats at the southern border and the international threats posed by Russia, Iran and China.
"It's now time for Congress to take action on the supplemental national security legislation that finally faces those actions head on," McConnell said on the floor.
Ahead of the bill's text release, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday expressed his support for the border package -- and said he and McConnell are in lock step.
"Leader McConnell and I, who disagree on many issues, have never worked so closely together on legislation as we did on this, because we both realize the gravity of the situation and how important passage of this legislation is," Schumer said to reporters.
He said it's the time for lawmakers to come together to support this important plan for border security.
"We cannot let politics get in the way of passing this legislation," Schumer said. "The senators have to drown out the noise of politics and politicians who tell them not to vote for this bill for political purposes."
