CBC members nix border visit

• The lawmakers instead opted for a White House meeting on Wednesday with Domestic Policy Council director Susan Rice and senior adviser and former CBC chairman Cedric Richmond, as well as members of Biden's national security team.

What they're saying: "I was the person that, prior to arranging to go to the White House, had wanted to go to the border. Part of the problem is we have to do the people's work, and it's not easy to get to the border," Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), the current chair of the CBC, told Axios.

• "I thought it would be better, actually, if we could get a meeting with those people who are in the room to make the decisions on it."
• "It is impossible to miss votes. And some of these are critical votes. ... We have votes in the House to send dollars to other countries."

• Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), another CBC member, told Axios' Hans Nichols: "If members want to go to the border, that would be their prerogative."

Beatty said that during the meeting at the White House, she told Rice, Richmond and the others "this is not only deplorable and horrific, but we wanted it to stop."

• "We wanted an investigation, we wanted it quickly. We wanted to know about what dollars that they put into Haiti if you're going to send people who haven't been there for decades back, and you know, asylum."