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Nonilex Feb 5, 2024

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#Senate negotiators release sweeping #border & military #aid #bill

After months of talks, Senate negotiators on Sunday released a sweeping #bipartisan border #security deal that is aimed at discouraging migrants from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
 The $118B #NationalSecurity #legislation also includes billions of dollars in funding for Ukraine, Israel, the Indo-Pacific & humanitarian aid….

#law #Immigration #HouseRepublicans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/04/senate-border-bill-israel-ukraine/

Senate negotiators release sweeping border and military aid bill

The bipartisan border security bill, which also includes billions of dollars in funding for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific, has a politically perilous path ahead.

The Washington Post

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Nonilex Feb 5, 2024

Even before seeing its contents, lawmakers on both the right — &, to a lesser extent, the left — flanks in #Congress have slammed the measure & #House #Speaker #MikeJohnson (R) called it “dead on arrival” in the chamber. #Trump, who has made the #border a core campaign issue, [& wants to keep it an unsolved issue] opposes the deal.

#law #Immigration #HouseRepublicans #TheDysfunctionIsThePoint

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#Senate Majority Leader Chuck #Schumer (D) announced that he would hold the first procedural vote on the #legislation on Wed, leaving the bill’s boosters little time to sell its provisions. “Senators must shut out the noise from those who want this agreement to fail for their own #political agendas,” he said in a statement Sunday evening.

#law #Immigration #HouseRepublicans #TheDysfunctionIsThePoint