Senator Josh Hawley, the Republican from Missouri, summed it up best: the Senate just gave the middle finger to Middle America. Watch my live show coverage above.
Just before sunrise, while many Americans were nestled in their beds – resting their heads on MyPillows – senators from both parties approved a massive foreign aid package.
The bill provides an endless stream of taxpayer cash to Ukraine but absolutely nothing to secure the southern border. Not a penny.
$95 billion for Ukraine and Israel and Taiwain. Nothing for the American border states.
Here’s the list of Republicans who joined Democrats to spend more American tax money in Ukraine.
John Boozman (R-AR), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Susan Collins (R-ME), John Cornyn (R-TX), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Hoeven (R-ND), John Kennedy (R-LA), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), James Risch (R-ID), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), John Thune (R-SD), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Todd Young (R-IN).
The House will take up the legislation but it’s unlikely to pass. House Speaker Mike Johnson says it is dead on arrival.
The frustrating part is that members of the Republican Party are more keen on protecting the borders of other nations, but not our own.
“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 said in a statement issued late Monday.
“America deserves better than the Senate’s status quo,” said Johnson, who has suggested in the past that the House could split the legislation into separate bills.
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