Vance Attacks Harris’ Border Wall Plans, but Gets Called Out for His Own Hypocrisy

Republican senator JD Vance has attacked Vice President Kamala Harris’ plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a border wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, but the attack has backfired spectacularly.

Vance posted an Axios article Tuesday morning about Harris’ plans for the border should she be elected president. The article said that Harris would approve a bipartisan border bill that includes money for border wall construction, albeit less than Trump wanted — even though Harris called the wall a “medieval vanity project” during Trump’s presidency.

But nuance wasn’t Vance’s concern when he decided to attack Harris for agreeing to fund the wall if elected:

“Kamala Harris is a fake. If she wants to build the border wall, she could start right now!”

But Congress has to approve funding for projects like the border wall — they’re not something the president or vice president can simply do by snapping their fingers.

And Vance himself voted against the bipartisan border bill when he had the chance, leading critics online to point out the irony in his post.

“Ok so your attacking Kamala for not building the border wall?” one Twitter user wrote. “Something Trump promised to do. And didn’t. And he called the people who believed he would ‘losers’. What a joke.”

“If you support border security you could have voted for the bi-partisan bill. Flip flopper,” another wrote.

“BREAKING: In the irony of all ironies, @JDVance calls Kamala Harris ‘fake’,” tweeted Representative Adam Kinzinger.

Vance’s attack on Harris is just the latest example of the Republican Party’s hypocrisy on the issue of border security. For years, Republicans have railed against illegal immigration and demanded that the government build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. But when they had the chance to actually do something about it, they failed to act.

In 2018, Congress passed a bipartisan border security bill that included funding for a border wall. But President Trump refused to sign the bill unless it included more funding for the wall than Congress was willing to provide. As a result, the bill died.

Trump then declared a national emergency and diverted billions of dollars from other projects to build a wall. But construction on the wall has been slow and expensive, and it’s still unclear whether it will be effective in deterring illegal immigration.

Now, Republicans are attacking Harris for supporting a border wall, even though they themselves have failed to build one. It’s a classic case of political opportunism, and it’s clear that Republicans are more interested in scoring political points than in actually solving the problem of illegal immigration.