On Thursday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports," Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that "we really do have to bring to bear the framework here that the Democrats want to implement the Biden plan to solve the problems at the border, but if open border Republicans want to go a different direction, well, we need 60 votes to pass a bill." And "if the story is that President Trump wants an open border, does not want this problem to be solved, and he's going to be backed up by open border Republicans to try to keep this open as an election issue, that is not serving America well."