President Biden teased a possible executive order to shut down the border. (Getty Images)
Jean-Pierre continued playing defense, arguing that President Biden has taken many executive actions before, but in order to deal with what's happening at the border and a broken immigration system, there needs to be a legislative approach.
"You need legislation, you need it to happen in a bipartisan way. And that was negotiated. It was negotiated. There was an agreement in the Senate. Republicans and Democrats came together. You just said it's broken, it's divided. To be more clear. And they came in, they did that. And so that matters," Jean-Pierre said.
She added that in the past three and a half years, the Biden administration has been able to move forward in a bipartisan way on a lot of legislation.
"The President is clear about where he stands – he believes we are a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. We can expand lawful immigration pathways and ensure the United States remains a beacon of hope and opportunity," Jean-Pierre wrote in a post on X.
Migrants cross the Rio Grande at the US-Mexico border in Piedras Negras, Coahuila state, Mexico, on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. (Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The secretary added that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wants to move this forward and is "very good at this."
"He's very good at dealing with big legislation. Obviously, as we've been able to move important legislation through over the past three and a half years. So I'm going to let him speak to that," she finished.
In a letter to senators dated Sunday evening, Sen. Schumer revealed his plan to bring an immigration bill to the floor once again after it was rejected primarily by Senate Republicans in February.
"We are hopeful this bipartisan proposal will bring serious-minded Republicans back to the table to advance this bipartisan solution for our border," he wrote.
DEMS PLAN TO REVIVE BORDER BILL REJECTED BY REPUBLICANS AHEAD OF NOVEMBER ELECTION
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer revealed his plan to bring back up a Democrat-backed border bill as Republicans are uniting to block the attempt. (Getty Images)
However, Republicans in both chambers of Congress are preparing to band together to block any hope of a Democrat-backed border bill getting to the finish line.
While Schumer explained that he expected to fall short of gaining full support from either party, the White House promptly backed Schumer's plan, with Jean-Pierre calling on "every senator to put partisan politics aside and vote to secure the border."
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The bill failed a test vote in February, by a vote of 49-50, short of the 60 votes needed to proceed.
Fox News' Julia Johnson and Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
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