Posted on 12/08/2023 3:38:51 AM PST by MtnClimber
In a key procedural vote on Wednesday, Senate Republicans blocked passage of a bill providing more military aid for Ukraine after Democrats at the last minute scuttled talks to include border security measures in the package – knowing full well that their refusal to compromise would doom the legislation. In doing so, congressional Democrats unintentionally revealed that maintaining an open U.S.-Mexico border is even more important to them than defending Ukraine against Russia.
In late October, President Joe Biden sent a supplemental funding request to Congress asking for $105 billion to help Ukraine and Israel in their respective conflicts with Russia and Hamas, as well as some defense funding for Taiwan. Although House Republicans had already passed a standalone bill sending assistance to Israel, Biden threatened to veto it unless Ukraine funding was attached.
While Congress has already allocated about $113 billion to Ukraine, the White House has said that money will run out by the end of December. But many Republicans, particularly in the House, are wary of signing off on additional funding without more robust oversight mechanisms to ensure that the money isn’t being lost to waste and fraud.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has consistently opposed the idea of passing a joint Ukraine-Israel-Taiwan bill at all, preferring to deal with each issue separately. But the Louisiana Republican seemed open to negotiations if an aid package were to include border security measures – a top issue for many Senate Republicans and some vulnerable Democrats as well.
Recognizing the chance for a compromise, Senate Republicans and Democrats launched into discussions late last month over a potential amendment to Biden’s supplemental funding bill that included border security. However, those talks broke down late last week as it became clear hardline Senate Democrats, most prominently Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, were unwilling to budge on even basic changes to border and immigration policy.
While it’s unclear exactly what Senate Republicans are proposing, their border security demands are reportedly similar to the provisions in H.R. 2, which passed the House earlier this year. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has called H.R. 2 a “non-starter,” while Schumer has said that it will never pass the Senate.
As a summary of the bill outlines, H.R. 2 would enact a number of comprehensive changes to U.S. border policy, including restarting construction of the border wall and increasing funding for border patrol to allow the agency to hire more agents and pay existing agents bonuses.
The bill would also restore President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which required asylum seekers to wait in Mexico rather than the United States while their asylum claims are adjudicated. Biden ended the policy shortly after taking office, effectively allowing anyone to walk into the United States, claim asylum, and then be released into the interior of the country while they wait for their asylum hearing, which could take months or even years.
House Republicans’ bill additionally reigns in executive immigration authorities, which Biden and other Democrat presidents have used to hamper the ability of border patrol to deport illegal crossers...
I hope that the House Republicans refuse to budge. Let the Senate democRATs take the illegal immigrants into their own homes.
This is a duh for me.
If any Republicans don’t understand what the democrats are doing to us and why ....
Why do I even bother, the idiots don’t understand how truly EVIL the democrats are.
Ukraine was a shakedown and money laundering site for the Dems and probably intelligence as well as state. They are willing to watch that go away to preserve an open border.
What that means is that the democrats power (ability to stay in office) and money (drugs). They expect illegals to vote for them in legions, and money to pour in from government visas and the cartels.
Re-election now, WWIII later…….
Securing the border is nice and all, but we all know irreparable damage has been done to the country. I mean, yeah secure the border, but unless we physically remove 60 million illegals, this can’t be fixed.
Don’t worry, the dems will sneak the billions for Zelenskyyy into some totally unrelated bill, and the sleepy RINOs won’t notice. The best time for this will be just before everyone is rushing to depart DC for the Christmas holidays.
Joe Briben will still get his 10% and Zelenskyyy will get a yacht.
Worth highlighting again and again.
Democrat Party -- the part of open borders, profligate spending and massive inflation.
And corruption.
Well, the Democrats do have other options regarding Ukraine, in that they can send in US Troops, which they all but promised to do yesterday.
But NOTHING is more important to the Democrats than completing the Great Replacement, both in the US and in Europe.
Look for offshore accounts labeled 'Pedo Pete'.
As traitors, the Demonicrats hate the United States that much... and more.
A tale of failure.
Senate Dems ....... salivating to give your taxes away to corrupt Ukraine ASAP......
launched into discussions over a potential amendment to Biden’s giveaway bill.
But the bill included a $14B handout to facilitate more border-jumpers sneaking in.
Loco Biden had hoped to fool the taxpayers by misnomering the $14B as “border security.”
But Senate Democrats were unwilling to budge on even basic changes to border and immigration policy.
Dems didnt want to diminish the numbers of their non-English speaking voting bloc pouring in.
DISSECTING THE WASHINGTON POST’S “ANALYSIS” OF UKRAINE’S FAILED COUNTER OFFENSIVE — PART 1
7 December 2023 by Larry Johnson
PART 2
Johnson: This two part series in the Washington Post is a must read because of what it tells the reader about the abysmal performance of the White House and the Department of Defense. I found it genuinely shocking. I knew that Biden, Austin and Milley were bad. I just did not appreciate how bad. On a scale of 1 to 10, with a 10 marking the biggest fuck up in history, these guys rate an 11.
Part two, In Ukraine, a war of incremental gains as counteroffensive stalls, pushes the false narrative that what is happening on the ground in Ukraine is a “stalemate.” No. What is going on is a major ass kicking by Russia. Here is the definition of a stalemate in chess, which also applies to war:
A stalemate is a special type of draw in the game of chess that occurs when the chess player who has to move cannot make any legal moves to a safe square but is also not in check. Stalemate typically ends the game with a draw—a scenario in which there is no way for either player to win the game.
No way for Russia to win? Think again. By decimating Ukraine’s army that is precisely a path to victory.
[read it all at the 2 links]
Part 2 describes in detail how the U.S. designed plan of attack fell apart during the first week of the counter offensive.
With 60-million MIVs already (by their own publicly-stated numbers) in country, the communists have no reason to throttle back from their goal of 125 million before the 2024 swindle...
That’s a guaranteed 60-million more communist votes to be added to their current Soros-guarantee of 90-million votes...
Does Zelensky have more yachts than Bernie Sanders has houses?
Democrat elites need brown people with zero chance at economic advanvement to clean their toilets and mow their lawns.
Gotta keep wages low and education poor, or they’ll move up the economic ladder!
Yada yada yada from the donkey party, we need reform but it must be “comprehensive immigration reform”, etc. etc.
Look at that. You can see where their priorities lie. Pathetic.
The rats know they will run out of places to put abortion initiatives on ballots they need bribed voters lots and lots of bribed voters
Also they intend to stock the US military with illegal invaders. This will keep the military beholden to the Democrats and give the illegals a pathway to citizenship and the vote.
Don't put anything past these people.
Brings up a point. I wonder how long before Democrats bring up the idea of housing illegals in private homes. It would seem to me that making a few announcements at the border that they are no longer welcome in the U.S.(and actively enforce it) because we can’t take care of them should slow things down possibly to a manageable level for the Border Patrol. It should be realized by now that we really cannot accommodate them. The U.S. can’t seem to even take care of it’s REAL citizens in a fit manner.
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