๐ณ๏ธ Key votes ยท ๐ Border & immigration
Advance the Biden-Schumer border deal
Four Republicans voted to advance the Biden-backed border deal, whose emergency shutdown power would not kick in until illegal crossings averaged 5,000 a day. It failed 49-50.
- Chamber
- Senate
- Date
- February 7, 2024
- Measure
- H.R. 815
- Roll call
- #39
- Result
- Cloture Motion Rejected, 49-50
- Republicans
- 4 yea, 44 nay
- Democrats
- 45 yea, 6 nay
- MAGA side
- Nay
๐ก Why it matters
President Trump opposed it. In 2025 his administration cut illegal crossings to record lows without any new law.
