The $118 billion package is the result of months of negotiations between Senate Republicans and Democrats, as well as the Biden administration. It's not clear it will pass Congress.
I’m disgusted that all this has to be rolled into a giant ball to even have a chance of passing.
We gotta keep supplying arms to a genocidal ally? Fuck Israel. They’ve had 70-years to get their shit together and stand on their own. Fuck Israel.
Our southern border is a whole separate issue. Yes, it’s fucking bad down there and the influx of migrants is unprecedented. We got a real fucking problem, and while I don’t have answers, that has nothing to do with either issue.
We gotta roll Ukrainian aid into all this? FFS, Republicans find it controversial to arm our ally against our fucking arch enemy?! We have the opportunity to give old (but solid!) gear to fight a proxy war against Russia, gather intelligence on modern warfare strategy and tactics, and the GOP fucks around?! FFS, now is the time to crush Russia for once and for all. What was it Kruschev said? “We will BURY you!”
The only thing unprecedented is the number of apprehensions. Migration was much higher earlier in the century.
The annual total — which includes people who were stopped at the border more than once — jumped by 37% from 1.7 million the year before.
That isn’t to suggest 2022 saw the largest number of people trying to enter the U.S. illegally. For instance, the Department of Homeland Security estimates that there were nearly 4 million unauthorized border crossings in 2000 but only 1.6 million were counted. Over the years, immigration authorities have been able to track more migrants as a result of improved security technology.
I’m disgusted that all this has to be rolled into a giant ball to even have a chance of passing.
We gotta keep supplying arms to a genocidal ally? Fuck Israel. They’ve had 70-years to get their shit together and stand on their own. Fuck Israel.
Our southern border is a whole separate issue. Yes, it’s fucking bad down there and the influx of migrants is unprecedented. We got a real fucking problem, and while I don’t have answers, that has nothing to do with either issue.
We gotta roll Ukrainian aid into all this? FFS, Republicans find it controversial to arm our ally against our fucking arch enemy?! We have the opportunity to give old (but solid!) gear to fight a proxy war against Russia, gather intelligence on modern warfare strategy and tactics, and the GOP fucks around?! FFS, now is the time to crush Russia for once and for all. What was it Kruschev said? “We will BURY you!”
The only thing unprecedented is the number of apprehensions. Migration was much higher earlier in the century.
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1130841306/new-record-in-border-patrol-apprehensions