policy: “Senior members – including Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mark Green (R-Tenn.), Chairmen of the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees , respectively — are quietly working on a slate of border-related bills, according to four lawmakers and GOP aides who may be ready to start moving as soon as the end of the month.
“Republicans have floated ideas like reviving the border wall and cracking down on asylum seekers, policies that don’t stand a chance in the Senate but would let them claim victory by message — if they can get them through to the Bedroom.”