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Posted on 12/05/2023 6:33:25 PM PST by 11th_VA
WASHINGTON — A classified briefing for senators on the White House's request for aid for Israel and Ukraine became "heated" Tuesday, with Republican members storming out of the meeting.
The briefing, led by the secretaries of defense and state, as well as the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was held behind closed doors to allow all 100 senators to ask questions about the administration's funding request.
But it fell apart, senators from both parties said, after Republicans began asking about the border. GOP members in both chambers have demanded serious changes to immigration policy to address rising migrant crossings in exchange for passing new aid for Ukraine.
They didn't like what they heard.
“People got up and walked out, because this is a waste of time," Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., told reporters.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called it "the most heated briefing in the SCIF [sensitive compartmented information facility] I’ve seen."
“What most, or many, Republican senators want to talk about here is the border, and Sen. Schumer would prefer not to do that in this venue; obviously, there’s nobody there to talk about the border," Hawley continued, referring to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. "So that was a point of some heated disagreement.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said: “It started off pretty bad ... a lot of tension in the room because nobody talked about the border. In case you don’t have a television or you’ve been living in a cave, you would know that most Republicans feel like we need to address the broken border.”
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Maybe some prior “Spinectomies” have been repaired???
“I didn’t expect the Senate GOP to fight for this …”
Seems like neither did the Dems.
(I kinda didn’t either)
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