Posted on 02/09/2024 7:14:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In a 67-32 vote on Thursday, 17 Republican senators voted alongside their Democrat colleagues to advance a $95 billion “emergency security spending bill” that included $60 billion in aid to Ukraine and, according to The Washington Post, billions of dollars to “Indo-Pacific allies and $10 billion in humanitarian aid for Gaza.”
This bill was introduced in response to the failure of its so-called bipartisan predecessor, championed by Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell and his Oklahoma-lackey Sen. James Lankford. The previous legislation that supposedly bundled border and foreign aid would have codified the ongoing southern border invasion into law by largely preventing meaningful action from being taken unless there was, as Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi noted, a “rolling average of 5,000 border encounters per day for a week, or 8,500 encounters in a single day.”
Subsequently, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer opted to advance the “emergency security spending” legislation, which prioritized foreign assistance without any funding for border security. The Hill reported Schumer as saying, “First Republicans said they would only do Ukraine and Israel, humanitarian aid with border. Then they said they would not do it with [the] border. Well, we’re going to give them both options. We’ll take either one. We just hope they can come to ‘yes’ on something.”
Democrats view the border invasion with optimism. The multinational horde of fighting-age men serves their agenda. Obviously, they’re fine playing politics with this existential threat. Republicans have no excuse; border security is supposed to be a make-or-break issue for them.
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Well, at least we know why the “Border Security Bill” simply codified the lawlessness occurring at out southern border, it was just theater. We’ll see if Johnson has the fortitude to tell the Senate to pass border security or pound sand.
RINOS suck democrats suck worse and the border invasion totally sucks.
But military support for Israel is necessary.
And for Ukraine.
And for Taiwan.
The democrats and RINOs are NOT going to secure the border. The only hope for that is Donald Trump.
$10,000,000,000.00 for ham ass?
It’s called treason
Caught on camera: Hamas terrorists steal humanitarian aid, beat civilians
Thanks for the names.
Rush used to say “Well, these people must be proud of siding against their conservative constituents to sell out to the Democrats on this vote. I’m going to help them by reading off all their names to you on this radio show.”
For those of you like me that just want to see that list:
Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia
Bill Cassidy, Louisiana
Susan Collins, Maine
John Cornyn, Texas
Joni Ernst, Iowa
Chuck Grassley, Iowa
John Kennedy, Louisiana
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky
Mitt Romney, Utah
Mike Rounds, South Dakota
John Thune, South Dakota
Roger Wicker, Mississippi
Todd Young, Indiana
Can it be stopped in the house?
More Ukrainians will die, Putin will still prevail and America will become weaker if these TRAITORS have their way.
Yes. It is DOA in the house.
Kennedy is the only surprise for me.
The usual suspects.
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“Yes. It is DOA in the house”
Mayorkas says hi and thank you to the RINOS in Congress.
Me as well!
Charles Grassley and Joni Ernst are liars who are not representing Iowa
The bill has not passed the Senate yet. This was a vote to allow debate and amendments. I do not want to see one more dollar go to Ukraine. Hopefully some of the GOP senators are just using this vehicle to insert poison pills to make one dem vote against it.
EC
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