What is so wrong with demanding that the U.S. border be secure before spending money on securing the borders of Israel and Ukraine?
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Simple explanation. This whole thing is straw man. Whast’s happening at the border is a Biden Administration POLICY, no amount of anything will change it.
Right. Open Border is policy.
Billions for other countries is fungible deficit spending to enrich cronies and dive the U.S. into financial ruin a lá Cloward Liven. General spending.
But pulling in thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants per day is a hard and fast official (if unadmitted) Brandon Administration policy that Johnson will never be permitted to interrupt or even slow down.
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Well, Congress “can” dictate domestic policy details, but with a split legislature and an unruly House, it’d likely take near forever, and, the Administration could still negate most of the effort with further and more complex policy updates.
IMO in the coming month or two the House should put together a border bill that concentrates on a very few policy points that poll well, pass it, and let the Senate Dems kill it. That will make for good material to use in the election this fall. The key is to win back the Presidency. Without that, I agree, the border will continue to be a disaster.
MEANWHILE, the aid to Ukraine and Israel, particularly the weapons aid, is getting critical. Most FReepers don’t seem to understand the fallout: A failure of the West, there, is going to result in fallout that makes our border problem seem trivial. (And it’s NOT trivial.)