Hopefully he holds the line, because it should be DOA.
The bill includes $60.06 billion to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, $14.1 billion in security assistance for Israel, $20.23 billion for border security, $2.44 billion to US Central Command and the conflict in the Red Sea, and $4.83 billion to support US partners in the Indo-Pacific facing Chinese aggression. An additional $10 billion would go toward humanitarian assistance for populations in Gaza, the West Bank, and Ukraine.
Less than 20% of the money has anything to do with the border.
Plus, the whole bit about how it's only an emergency if you have >35000 ENCOUNTERED illegal crossings in a week, or >8500 ENCOUNTERED illegal crossings in one day. Ignoring the fact that both of those numbers are too high by two orders of magnitude, you know a very easy way to ensure you have less than those numbers? Telling the border patrol to stand down when they get to around 2/3 of that number. "Sure, we went for a five hour lunch today starting at 10:30, but we only encountered 3000 border crossers. Everything is fine"
Hopefully he holds the line, because it should be DOA.
Less than 20% of the money has anything to do with the border.
Plus, the whole bit about how it's only an emergency if you have >35000 ENCOUNTERED illegal crossings in a week, or >8500 ENCOUNTERED illegal crossings in one day. Ignoring the fact that both of those numbers are too high by two orders of magnitude, you know a very easy way to ensure you have less than those numbers? Telling the border patrol to stand down when they get to around 2/3 of that number. "Sure, we went for a five hour lunch today starting at 10:30, but we only encountered 3000 border crossers. Everything is fine"
''It's only an emergency if the equivalent of the entire population of West Virginia enters per year. No that's not an invasion.''
Clown World.
Also removes all related court cases to a court in Washington D.C.
Seems the Biden administration got tired of states having a say in how they're abused by your Federal government.
That part I didn't hear. Just yet another reason to kill the thing. Poison pill is an understatement.
Translation: $10 billion to bring Palestinian "refugees" into the country that funded bombing their old home. Surely that won't backfire.