I am willing to bet that when the truth comes out in a few years you will find that he was blackmailed into a lot of it just to keep money for our troops. Who knows what he had to trade to get that.
My biggest arguement with him was amnesty, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on that too because I think he remembers the people who USED to come across the border and not the ones who are coming now.
I have wondered about that as well in those moments I've given him the benefit of doubt. If true, I look forward to seeing some political revenge against the blackmailers, though I suspect two of them have recently died.
Budget battles and compromises are understandable, necessary and expected, but holding military funding hostage in a time of war to some politicians' pet pork projects is simply not tolerable. One would think that would be common knowledge.