MISSOULA, MT – While Jon Tester attempts to defend the Biden-Harris administration’s failure to secure the southern border, AFP Action is highlighting the endangered senator’s border security stance (or lack thereof):
- Jon Tester was the deciding vote to kill an amendment that would have provided funding for constructing a border fence.
- Jon Tester was the deciding vote to kill an amendment that would have provided $500 million for walls and fences along the southwest border.
- Jon Tester has continuously questioned the need for a border wall, going on the record to say he “is not in favor…of building a fence or wall.” In 2019, he again criticized a physical wall at the southern border.
AFP Action Senior Advisor Jesse Ramos released the following statement:
“Amid the Biden-Harris border crisis, every town and city has become a border town. Fentanyl and dangerous narcotics are pouring in through the southern border and Jon Tester and the Biden-Harris administration have done little to secure the border.
“It’s time for action and not more of the same rhetoric pushed by Senator Tester. When elected, Tim Sheehy will fight to secure the border by increasing troops on the ground, investing in technology and boots on the ground at the southern border. Tester has has nearly 20 years in Washington, DC and our state has become less safe.”
