All 49 GOP senators united to defeat the Democrats’ plan to accelerate, expand, and hide the inflow of millions of illegal migrants during the 2024 election year.
The Democratic funding plan needed 60 voters to start the floor debate. But the start was blocked by 5o to 49 votes — and it will likely return in January.
Democrats tried to strong-arm the GOP by attaching the $14 billion in migration money to a spending package for causes the GOP leadership wants to support — $61 billion for embattled Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel.
GOP senators said they support the military aid — but blocked the package with the migration funding.
“Tonight is a sad night in the history of the Senate and in our country,” lamented Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the pro-migration leader of the Senate Democrats. He continued:
If Republicans in the Senate do not get serious very soon about a national security package, Vladimir Putin is going to walk right through Ukraine and right through Europe … Western democracy will begin to enter an age of decline, if we aren’t willing to defend it.
“The question before us is simple: Will senators rise to defend Western democracy,…
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