A source described as a “senior GOP aide” involved with negotiations over the increasingly doomed border compromise bill in the Senate tells the Daily Beast that “Republicans were elected to secure the border. The fact that we’re putting one man’s political desires over the rare opportunity to make the border safer is a betrayal to our voters and the American people,” adding that if Republicans didn’t act “simply because Donald Trump told us not to,” then they’ll have “squandered a huge opportunity. If you want to blame Democrats for the border. Republicans can’t be the problem.”