Statements by Democrats that they are attempting to revive negotiations over the bipartisan proposals to help reduce chaos at the southern border are not serious, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told Newsmax on Wednesday.

Lankford, who was one of the original negotiators of the bipartisan package that was shut down earlier this year, told “Wake Up America” that “no one has talked to me about trying to solve this issue [currently], because this is a not a serious attempt to try and solve anything,” as it was beforehand.

He stressed that “no one is sitting down to do this now” and that “the presidential election [this coming November] is going to resolve” this issue.

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