The lines have been drawn in Congress over funding for the war in Ukraine and border security. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) gave what was, in effect, an ultimatum to the president: no Ukraine funding without substantial money for border security.
It appears that the Democrats were trying to avoid political dynamite by not voting for border security, hoping Republicans would help pass a national security bill. That legislation would give $15 billion to Ukraine to fight the war against Russia and another $10 billion to Israel.
Democrats say the bill would also provide more than $5 billion in emergency funding for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and about $2.3 billion to ICE.
But there’s no reform of asylum rules and no abandoning of “catch and release. There are no funds to complete the wall, although there’s more money for border agents and immigration judges to speed the asylum process up.
“The battle is for the border,” Johnson said. “We do that first as a top priority, and we’ll take care of things.”
This is the reality for Biden and the Democrats; there is going to have to be revolutionary changes in border policy and…
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