Hey Mitch, snap your head back into your shell and STFU.
Posted on 11/01/2023 3:18:18 PM PDT by Mariner
If Democrats want a big foreign aid package for Israel and Ukraine, they’ll need to swallow some major concessions on border security.
That’s the message Senate Minority Leader McConnell and other top Republicans sent on Tuesday, as Washington headed for a showdown over overseas military spending. “I think Democrats will have to accept a really serious US-Mexico border protection bill in order to get our people on board for a comprehensive approach” to Israel and Ukraine, McConnell told reporters at his weekly press conference.
Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D. echoed the GOP leader. Without a border security deal, “nothing else falls into place,” he told Semafor.
McConnell’s comments were especially significant given that he has been the White House’s most critical Republican ally in its push for a $106 billion package that would wrap together aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, while providing more cash for the Department of Homeland Security. That measure has collided into stiff conservative opposition in the House, where Republicans have proposed a standalone Israel aid bill.
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When the House bill arrives on their doorstep, you'll see a majority in the Senate for bifurcation.
Thus begins the slow, inexorable slide of Ukraine into budget oblivion.
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I have a crazy idea.
One package for Israel, and another for Ukraine.
All whores are for sale.
Hey scumbag, dazed Mitch! Your wife is already in tight with the Chi-coms - you need Ukrainian kick-backs that badly also?
IT doesn’t matter how much money the CBP gets-—
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IF the BIDEN ADMIN keeps letting people in——the CBP cannot do their job.
“I think Democrats will have to accept a really serious US-Mexico border protection bill in order to get our people on board for a comprehensive approach” to Israel and Ukraine, McConnell told reporters at his weekly press conference.
Even if passed, Dems will not abide by it, it will be tied up in courts, and the border will remain fully open.
The appropriate response to lawlessness is non-existent.
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$$$ and Enforcement are two very different things.
Mitch does what Joseph Burden tells him.
The idea is even more spending - but it’s a trick. Money is not the problem, it’s their policy and belief that Dems benefit by not enforcing.
I wouldn’t trust McConnell as far as I could throw an elephant. NO COMBO DEAL!
Biden’s request did ask for more BP money, but not for security, just to process illegals in even FASTER!
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It’s an obvious trick. Lure swampers in with even more Spending.
“House Democrats say there’s not enough cash for food and shelter for migrants”
Follow the money.
Hey Mitch, snap your head back into your shell and STFU.
Biden and the Democrats are OK with arming foreign countries but grabbing guns from Americans is an obsession w/ them. The same “Congress” that gleefully tramples 2A rights, is hell bent on supplying weapons to foreign countries.
Not content w/ the mega billions already in his pocket, Zelensky now says
he wants US tax dollars to Ukraine “according to the Israeli model”......here’s what he means:
Congressional Research Service
US Foreign aid to Israel
60 page detailed report
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL33222/44
The concerned Israeli lobby made sure Congress is required by law to ensure that U.S. military aid in the Middle East region doesn’t damage Israel’s military superiority over its neighbors. That requirement enjoys broad bipartisan support and has served as a benchmark for ensuring Israel receives robust U.S. support.
Biden keeps gaslighting Americans about the “need” for
American foreign aid tax dollars to Ukraine and Israel.
Here’s why they DONT need it:
About $113.1 billion in tax dollars were authorized in 2022 for Ukraine, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Most of it–about $67.1 billion–was defense-related. The other $46 billion included:
<><>$26.9 billion for economic support;
<><>$7.9 billion for international disaster assistance;
<><>$6.6 billion in assistance for refugees;
<><>$1.5 billion for assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia;
<><>plus $3.1 billion for other non-defense spending.
US tax dollars helped Ukraine
<><>pay the salaries of 618,000 educators, 517,000 health workers, and 56,500 first responders
<><>helped sustain critical healthcare services,
<><>helped meet pension responsibilities for 9.8 million people,
<><>assisted 1.3 million internally displaced persons,
<><>provided housing assistance to 4.1 million people,
<><>provided social assistance to 240,000 low-income families
<><>helped subsidize 480,000 persons with disabilities,
<><>bought supplies for farmers,
<><>financed finding markets for small business.\\
Backstory: Since 1973, Israel has received more than $120 billion US tax
dollars in MILITARY assistance alone, including “three special aid” packages.
<><>billions for signing the Israel-Egypt peace treaty
<><>billions for Israel’s withdrawal from the Sinai.
<><>billions for redeployment of Israeli forces
<><>rebuilding Israeli air bases in the Negev cost $5 billion.
Besides weaponry, Israel also receives economic and humanitarian foreign aid, which supports broad economic development and sociopolitical stability and can include non-military support related to the country’s pressing security needs.
Military aid from US taxpayers has blanketed Israel over the years. They have more than enough resources, now, to nail Hamas and Hezbollah. Wealthy Israel has very low debt, and actually had a budget surplus this year, while the US is $33 trillion in debt, a debt which future generations are saddled with.
Spending money on the border means nothing.
Have to give the Communists credit. They never relent in their pursuit of absolute power & control...
They have learned, very well indeed, their lessons for creating & expanding a police state from past American WH tyrants like FDR, and Bush, and foreign WH tyrants like Obama...
Billions more for Homeland Security will enable them to accomplish their goals of suffocating the very few remaining freedoms & liberties of the American serfs with prejudice...
This man is a certified POS. The repubs in the Senate need to pick an American for their speaker.
That little snippet is why many people just do not have the stomach for being in elected office. The “need” to compromise is so repulsive in so many cases.
Sickening to think of what people vote for, just to for a pot of stew (so to speak).
“Republicans aren’t just asking for money. Instead, some are advocating more sweeping changes to the U.S. asylum system, such as reinstating Trump-era rules compelling some migrants to wait in Mexico while their cases are processed.”
That’s promising. My initial thought in reading the excerpt is they just want more money to help the border patrol relocate illegal aliens throughout the country. But it sounds like they may actually want to try to curtail illegal immigration to what their corporate donors need.
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