House Democrats blocked a bipartisan emergency border funding bill a total of 81 times on the House floor Thursday.
One GOP member after another lined up in the chamber to request unanimous consent to consider the Senate’s recently passed emergency border supplemental bill. All of those requests were objected to and the measure was subsequently blocked.
“I think everybody in this body knows that that Senate bill will pass,” McCarthy said on the House floor before the lineup. “You do not have to worry about what the outcome will be, the leader of the Senate has already said what will happen. Because I will promise you this, on this side of the aisle, we will stay here until this is done. We will not leave. And we will stand with the bipartisan vote in the Senate.”