‘Groups built around not getting things done,’ Sen. Lankford says of DC culture

(NewsNation) — Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., lamented on Sunday the Senate's failure to pass bipartisan legislation on the southern border and blamed the lobbyist culture of Washington, D.C.

“There are so many outside groups that are built around not getting things done,” he said on NewsNation's "The Hill Sunday." “It's the old consulting joke: If you can't solve a problem, there's good money to be made prolonging it. And that's where we are in the cycle at this point.”

Republicans in February resisted advancing a bipartisan proposal intended to clamp down on illegal border crossings. In a speech on the Senate floor just before the vote, Lankford, who crafted the proposal, said it was a chance for the Senate to decide “if we’re going to do nothing, or something.”