Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) had strong words for President Joe Biden’s recent border visit, but told Fox News he still planned to vote for his fellow party member.

Cuellar is one of 14 Democrats to vote against Biden’s border policies in the House, and is co-chair of the Democrats For Border Security Task Force.

Edward Lawrence, in for Neil Cavuto, asked, “I’m curious, Congressman, if nothing changes, would you vote again for President Biden in the next presidential election?”

“Yes, I will. Look, you know, he wanted to support the Senate. He worked on the Senate bipartisan border deal and our Republicans don’t even want to consider it. So he’s trying,” Cuellar said. “So, yes, I would support him. You know, do I agree with him 100%? Nobody agrees with — if it’s a Republican, they don’t agree with Trump 100%. But, yes, I’ll support President Biden. But again, when it comes to border security, the Senate deal was something we need to take a look at.”

“Now, in an election year, the president is deciding to push this. Isn’t that a little suspect?” Lawrence asked.

Cuellar said “They didn’t even talk to any of us” when considering HR2. He continued:

Look, I’m at the border, I don’t just come in, take photos at the border for a couple of hours and then take off. I live here. I talk to Border Patrol. I talk to ICE. I talk to CBP, the folks at our bridges. And again, I want to make sure that if we do something together, let’s work.

But the other thing is, look, on the appropriations, if you look at the last two years of appropriations, Homeland appropriations, we added $2.4 billion to CBP, except for two Republicans are still in the House. Two Republicans are still in the House — every single Republican voted to add more money for border patrol and add new border patrol agents, add technology — they voted against $2.4 billion the last two…appropriations. So, again, look, you know, you can’t just say it’s the Democrats or Republicans. We need to stop playing politics in Congress and do what we need to do and secure the border.

The two Republicans who opposed the measure were Reps. John Duarte (R-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY).

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