Yes, and it shouldn't except for being an enemy of our enemy and a great place to once and for all end Putin's dream of imperial expansion.
Posted on 02/13/2024 5:52:15 AM PST by Angelino97
The Senate passed a massive foreign aid bill to Ukraine and Israel without border security measures after Republican turmoil ultimately tanked a bipartisan deal last week.
The sprawling $95 billion bill captured the necessary 60 senators needed to send the legislation to the House Tuesday morning after a rare all-night session ending in a 70-29 vote, but it faces an uncertain fate.
In total, the package includes $61 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel in its war against Hamas and $4.83 billion to support partners in the Indo-Pacific, including Taiwan, to deter aggression by China.
It also provides $9.15 billion in humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, Ukraine and other conflict zones around the globe.
Speaker Mike Johnson cast doubt on its passage in the House, calling it 'insufficient' without border security measures in a late night statement saying the Senate has 'failed to meet the moment.'
'Now, in the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters,' Johnson continued. 'America deserves better than the Senate's status quo.'
Last week, Republicans tanked a bipartisan $118 billion bipartisan deal to beef up border security while funding Ukraine and Israel. They accused it of not going far enough to secure the border and said it would cement Biden's 'open border' policies.
It wasn't easy to get Senate Republicans onboard with the thinner $95 billion deal without immigration measures as tempers flied over the tanked border deal.
But ultimately, over a dozen Republicans voted to pass the bill with Democrats because of the fear that Russian President Putin would be emboldened.
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I would expect nothing less from this enemy occupation of our government.
“$9.15 billion in humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, Ukraine and other conflict zones around the globe”
The Palestinian Authority owns hydrocarbon rights off Gaza that could be sold off.
Israel can sell war bonds and cut back its welfare system.
The Senate’s passage of the Biden funding bill made George Soros very happy.
Is this another source of income for Soros, for his financing lefties in the US govt?
J Street Lobby Backstory——On Friday, October 20th, 2023, the Biden Administration sent a Supplemental Funding Request to the Congress that contains key priorities for the American Jewish community:
Please urge your federal elected officials to take action by sending an email below or picking up the phone to call using the script at the end of this form. Your advocacy will help ensure Congress passes the Supplemental Budget Request, which includes the following:
<><>$14.3 Billion in Emergency assistance to Israel: This emergency assistance will bolster Israel’s ability to defend herself and replenish vital defense systems, including the Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defense programs.
<><>Increased Funding for FEMA’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP): Jewish communities are in a state of elevated readiness and have already been forced to increase their security measure. FEMA’s Nonprofit “Security Grant Program” helps ensure the safety and security of Jewish and other faith-based community institutions. The increased funding included in Biden’s Supplemental Budget Request will help bolster our Jewish community’s capacity to protect itself at this challenging time.
<><>$61.4 Billion in Emergency Assistance to Ukraine: The J Street Lobby stands in solidarity with Ukraine and supports efforts to strengthen its democracy in the face of aggression. This funding will aid Ukraine’s efforts to safeguard its democracy and protect its citizens. Jewish Federations are actively engaged in supporting the Ukrainian people—including by resettling over 2,600 displaced Ukrainians across the United States—and we seek continued U.S. support for these critical efforts.
J Street believes that maintaining a strong, vibrant US-Israel relationship is a core American interest. We want to see a secure, thriving Israel that is a healthy democracy, a national home for the Jewish people and a state for all its citizens that embodies the shared values that have long formed the heart of the special relationship between our two countries. We believe that American diplomatic leadership has an important role to play in helping to make this vision a reality, as does cooperation in (financing) Israel’s security, economic, technological, academic and civil society spheres.
WIKI-—Confidential IRS documents obtained by The Washington Times in 2010 showed that George Soros had been a donor to J Street since 2008. The approximately $750,000 from Soros and his family, together with donations from Hong Kong-based businesswoman Ms. Consolacion Esdicul, amounted to about 15% of J Street’s funding in its early years.
In previous statements and on its web site J Street had seemed to deny receiving support from foreign interests and from Soros.
Jeremy Ben-Ami apologized for earlier “misleading” statements regarding funding from Soros. Ben-Ami also clarified that donors to 501(c)(4) organizations are promised confidentiality by law and challenged critics to make public the contributions from opposing organizations.
"goodies for our foreign allies" is aid in the form of US weapons.
Seriously, that's your complaint, that the US government isn't spending enough when the US budget last year was 6.5 trillion?
I thought he said “It would not pass the House”. There is a huge difference.
Our corrupt ruling class is creating money out of nothing to fund this money laundering giveaway. $35 Trillion. When is the next continuing resolution debacle? The noose is over our heads and tightening.
You spend all your time on this site pimping for the RAT and RINO war in Ukraine.
You need to find a place that backs Ukraine and Joey’s war.
Ukraine means nothing to most of us. Nothing, and we are tired of being robbed for that corrupt dump.
“The Senate passed a massive foreign aid bill to Ukraine and Israel without border security measures”
The dems say - OK you don’t like Ukraine funding with some border money scraps. Fine here’s Ukraine funding with no scraps.
I'd like money spent on border security.
Is that okay with you?
"goodies for our foreign allies" is aid in the form of US weapons.
Do YOU support that? I don't.
It doesn't really benefit us that SOME* of our foreign aid money is spent on U.S. weapons, any more than it benefits us that Covid stimulus money is spent on U.S. consumer goods.
*I say "some," because Israel enjoys a unique legal exemption; it can spend some U.S. foreign aid money on its own arms manufacturers.
Yes, and it shouldn't except for being an enemy of our enemy and a great place to once and for all end Putin's dream of imperial expansion.
NO additional money is needed to enforce existing laws. Getting rid of catch and release and enforcing a stay in Mexico policy does NOT need some massive infusion of spending. Trump shut down the border without some massive increase in spending on border security.
Absolutely correct and on point. Throwing new money at the border is not required.
A very succint three word order is all that is required.......”Stop the Illegals”
What have any of those countries ever done for us?
All foreign aid should be in the form of loans.
All foreign aid should be halted until our own economic house is in order.
15 years ago, I lost my job due to the recession. My wife and I believe strongly in the concept of tithing, although we don’t believe that it must be a specific amount, like 10%. Sometimes we donate more than that, sometimes less.
However, when I lost my job, we did still make donations, but they were far less than when I was employed. Taking care of my family came first. Feeding others while my family is starving is wrong and unbiblical.
“But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially members of his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” I Timothy 5:8
One can easily transfer that injunction to the job of our legislators, who are apparently worse than unbelievers.
“Building a wall is a red herring”
“The fundamental problem is that anyone can claim asylum with zero proof, which means all of Earth can come to America.”
Elon Musk
The Refugee Convention must be removed from the Democratic Party toolbox by invoking Article 44.
Asylum applicants should have to wait in defined areas on military bases until their applications are fully processed.
They might be allowed to apply for agricultural visas.
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