Sen. Lindsey Graham blasts Biden over border tweet: 'This is offensive'
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham previews his priorities and line of questioning during the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing with DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas.
President Biden blasted Republicans on Twitter Saturday, claiming GOP proposals would "slash funding for border security - a move that could allow nearly 900 pounds of fentanyl into our country." Sen. Lindsey Graham blasted the president on "America's Newsroom" Tuesday for the "offensive" claim, noting President Biden's "weak" stance on the border.
BIDEN BLASTED FOR CLAIMING GOP WOULD SLASH BORDER FUNDING: ‘MUST BE A PARODY’
LINDSEY GRAHAM: This is offensive to me that the president would suggest that the Republican Party is weak on the border. Mr. President, since you've been in charge, everything is going to hell in a handbasket. You've had the largest number of illegal immigrant crossings on your watch in the history of the country. The drug cartels are poisoning more Americans every year than are killed by car wrecks and gun violence combined. You have no solution to these problems. You withdrew from Afghanistan. And General [Michael] Kurilla, the CENTCOM commander, said, within six months, ISIS-K, ISIS members in Afghanistan can attack America without warning. And one of the easiest ways to do that is come through a broken border. So this is an effort to deflect that will fall flat.
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 17: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with reporters before departing from the South Lawn of the White House on Marine One on March 17, 2023 in Washington, DC. President Biden is spending the weekend in Wilmington, Delaware. ((Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images))
"MAGA House Republican proposals would slash funding for border security – a move that could allow nearly 900 pounds of fentanyl into our country," the president tweeted. "We need more resources to secure the border. Not less."
Biden’s tweet included a photo of himself shaking hands with a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer, which was taken from his first and only trip to the border in El Paso, Texas, in January. Photos taken by Getty showed Biden briefly spoke with CBP officers sitting inside a mobile X-ray truck on the Bridge of the Americas border crossing.
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The head of the U.S. Border Patrol told lawmakers earlier this month the agency does not have operational control of the U.S. southern border and also said migration levels were at "crisis" levels in some places. It was also revealed this week that Border Patrol had reached one million migrant encounters already for fiscal year 2023.
Fox News' Jessica Chasmar contributed to this report.
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