President Joe Biden says he is eager to sign a Senate bill ostensibly designed to “shut down the border right now.” The latest deficit spending deal Senate lawmakers unveiled Sunday, however, does anything but “shut down” the southern U.S. border.
The proposed $118 billion bill offers more than $60 billion for Kyiv, more than $14 billion for Israel, and $10 billion for aid in Gaza, the West Bank, and Ukraine. Just roughly $20 billion set aside in the 370-page “Emergency National Security Supplemental” bill is set aside for the U.S. border. With provisions allowing more than 5,000 crossings per day and unchecked asylum for all, as well as multiple opportunities for the president to waive the law’s provisions, it makes sense that Biden, whose presidency has been defined by open border turmoil, is eager to sign “immediately.”
“I’m ready to secure the border,” the president said in a Sunday statement. The statement comes after his border policies have allowed an estimated 1.7 million known “gotaways” to come into the United States unvetted, according to the House Judiciary Committee. In January, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana published a document highlighting 64 times besides supporting this disastrous “border deal” that the president has “Intentionally Undermined Border Security.”
“Since his first day in office, President Biden and his administration have worked to systematically undermine America’s border security,” Johnson said. “On more than 60 occasions, he has manipulated the federal bureaucracy to open our borders to illegal immigrants, human trafficking, fentanyl, and potential terrorists.
