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So why is he the face of the bill when Democrats control the Senate? Why isn't a Democrat fronting the bill?

Remember when Obama offered the Commerce Secretary to Judd Gregg (R-NH) back in 2009? The plot was to get Judd to resign and then have the Democrat governor of New Hampshire to appoint a Democrat and give Obama a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority (IMHO despite the governor's promise to fill the seat with another Republican).

Judd accepted the Commerce office until Obama announced that he was moving the Census from Commerce to the White House, making Judd's Cabinet position useless. Judd then withdrew from confirmation and kept his Senate seat.

I fear that Senate Republicans are being suckered again by having Lankford be the front-man for this bill, so that Democrats can hide behind Lankford to make the border crisis a Republican problem going into the 2024 election.

-PJ