At 6:40 PM EDT on Monday, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board posed the question “Do Republicans want to better secure the US border, or do they want to keep what has become an open sore festering for another year as an election issue?” and approximately 75 minutes later they got their answer when Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman tweeted “NEWS: @LeaderMcConnell recommended a NO vote on the supplemental Wednesday in a closed Senate GOP meeting.”
Maybe they should’ve updated the piece to remove the conditionals and put all their warnings in the present tense. Like it wouldn’t have been that hard to change “If Republicans reject this bill, they will hand Democrats an argument that the GOP wants border chaos that they can exploit as a campaign issue. The chaos will continue for at least another year. Republicans may think they can write a better law if Mr Trump wins in November, but don’t count on it. Democrats will again demand much more in return. If Republicans pass up this rare chance at border reform, they may not get a better one,” to “Republicans have handed Democrats the argument that the GOP wants border chaos that they can exploit as a campaign issue…” because that’s pretty much what’s happened.