Just In: The Extremely Controversial Border Bill Has Just Died in the Senate After Vote

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The Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill that welded foreign military aid with what was billed as a border security package.

The bill, which was violently opposed by former President Donald Trump, failed on a 49-50 vote, according to NBC.

Republican Sens. James Lankford of Oklahoma, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah supported the bill, according to The Washington Post. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell opposed it.

Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bob Menendez of New Jersey, Alex Padilla of California and Ed Markey of Massachusetts opposed the bill, as did Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent.

Emotions ran high after the vote. Murkowski lashed out at the bill’s opponents.

“I have a difficult time understanding again how anyone else in the future is going to want to be on that negotiating team — on anything — if we are going to be against it,” she said, according to CNN.

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