The national security supplemental provides for $118.3 billion in total funding, including $60 billion to support war-torn Ukraine, matching the White House's request, and $14.1 billion in security assistance to Israel, according to a summary released by Senate Appropriations Committee chair Patty Murray.
The legislation also includes $20.2 billion for US border security and a myriad of immigration policy changes agreed to by Democratic and Republican negotiators.
Most significantly, it would give President Joe Biden the power to reject asylum seekers if illegal border crossings reached over 5,000 per week -- a figure breached multiple times in recent months.
"Biden would immediately use this authority -- which would mean people coming across the border are generally ineligible for asylum -- if crossings were at current levels," a White House official told reporters late Sunday.
The new Senate Bill is a disaster. We’ve already spent $113B on this proxy war in Ukraine.
Requesting an additional $60B when we have so many problems at home including inflation and the border crisis is reckless.
No more money for Ukraine until we have a secure border, a booming economy and pay off some of our $34T of debt.
@D3legateLemurLibertarian4mos4MO
Not to mention that the money hasn’t been effectively spent. We are now 2 years into this war…Ukraine continues to be occupied, lots of money can’t be accounted for, violence and corruption seem to be spreading….another $60 Billion won’t change that. It’s clear this situation is continued standoff at best. We can’t keep doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome.
I’t won’t be a standoff for long. Once Putin takes Ukraine, he will march into a bordering NATO country. Than the US will have boots on the ground in Eastern Europe. Get the body bags ready. You guys cannot see the forest for the trees.
It’s the America taxpayers fault if hundreds of thousands of Palestinians starve
@D3legateLemurLibertarian4mos4MO
These guys rob American taxpayers for the sake of Israel. It appears that is their only job in government besides enriching themselves further through insider training. People should be rioting in the streets against these crooks.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
No, it's the government's fault. I'd prefer not to have the IRS plunder me, thank you very much. But they do. Does that make it my fault? H*ll no. It's the Deep State's fault.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
Or we just leave NATO, instantly resolving that problem
Yeah... and no more money to Israel either
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
Or any foreign nation under the sun.
@DiplomacyChowderUnity4mos4MO
Uniparty neocon Chuck Schumer warns that unless Congress approves his new $118 billion bill to fund the genocide in Gaza and proxy war in Ukraine, US troops may soon fight in the Middle East and against Russia directly.
He also admits that "hundreds of thousands" of Palestinians "could starve." But rather than end the genocide in which they risk that starvation, he wants to give Israel another $14 billion to continue it (while throwing in a token amount for Palestinian "humanitarian aid").
@HushedFrogGreen4mos4MO
If I were a self-identified progressive who sided with (or declined to challenge) uniparty neocons like Schumer and Mitch McConnell on the Ukraine proxy war up until this point, I'd be doing some heavy self-reflection.
@DiplomacyChowderUnity4mos4MO
It always amazes me how dumb these people are.
@SheepishElectionSocialist4mos4MO
So Americans choices are:
1- fund and support a Bill we hate or
2- be sent to fight by a ruling class that hates us
These are necessary to ‘defend democracy’
@DiplomacyChowderUnity4mos4MO
Senator Schumer said, "The war in the middle east will get worse" if we don't send Israel another $18B to continue the war effort? WTF is this guy smoking?
@9JPGPKJ4mos4MO
what is the reason for the 60 billion
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
Because the military-industrial complex has bribed our lawmakers into prolonging wars so they can get more money and so Congress can gain more power over our lives
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
I mean, I agree with that, but I don’t think that’s the cause of the funding, they’re just itching for a fight, and right now we actually do need to help them fight.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
That's highly questionable to say the least
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
Well, we swore we would help, Russia’s hurt a lot from it, america has been prompted to be more energy independent, and BRICS has overall been weakened. Not to mention that Ukrainian forces are almost entirely out of weapons, so yes, they DO need our help.
@9JPWCW74mos4MO
its garbage. we spend billions on a losing war effort that is only allowing more more and more ukrainians to get killed. we have plenty that needs to happen in order to get our own country back on track instead.
bad because the Ukraine will building bad things and use it against us
@8ZV5WNB 4mos4MO
We should support Ukraine to weaken Russian military.
@9JPQ7C54mos4MO
Stop giving Ukraine money and focus on the us the American People.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
Every dollar Congress spends is a dollar that will be plundered from everyday Americans like you and me, either through taxation or inflation (which is just another, particularly vicious, form of taxation). This is 178 dollars paid by every American, adult or not. So if you have a family of four this decision cost you approximately 712 dollars, and the Ukraine War as a whole cost you $2500. Think what you could do with that money – the food you could buy for your family, it could contribute toward a down payment on a house, it could help buy a car – it could do all kinds of things infinitely more productive than prolonging human suffering and bloodshed in a hopeless and un-winnable proxy war.
@9JPGRQ74mos4MO
The Ukrainian Government has been given Military Aid around $60 Billion USD by a bill passed by the US Government.
@ChicH0u5eSocialist4mos4MO
Oh wow, laundered money is unaccounted for? It’s almost as if, that was the whole point…
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