The lying, scheming, and deception surrounding the Senate’s emergency appropriations bill should have barred it from consideration — especially by Republicans. Democrats’ sudden support for legislation masquerading as a solution to the raging U.S. border crisis after they ignored the record-breaking invasion for the last three years is even more utterly disqualifying.
Republicans and Democrats alike pitched the Senate’s latest as a one-size-fits-all solution to the nation’s border woes. They claimed it would be a fast track to the border shutdown the country needs and crack down on asylum claims.
In reality, the legislative package throws billions more U.S. tax dollars at securing Ukraine’s borders while purposefully leaving the American border vulnerable to millions more illegal border crossings each year.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson warned on Sunday night that the “worse than we expected” bill would be “dead on arrival” in the lower chamber. His rejection of the legislation, however, did nothing to stop his GOP colleagues in the Senate and their allies in the Democrat party from touting the bill.
Administration Allies
Joe Biden has the power as POTUS to end the border crisis his administration created with the stroke of the pen but has thus far refused. Instead, he threw his weight behind legislation that would codify his administration’s border sabotage and claimed only the bill as is “would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed.”
“Now we’ve reached an agreement on a bipartisan national
