A member of the House of Representatives has condemned the Senate after it passed a bill to give $95 billion to Ukraine and Israel without border security provisions.
According to Chip Roy, the bill is an “abomination” and the 22 Republican senators who voted for it “should be ashamed.” He said:
I think I might submit a bill pretty soon to rename Texas to Ukraine. Then maybe this administration and senators will work on securing the border of the United States
He also added:
I’ve never seen the nursing home known as the United States Senate work harder than when it comes to spending the American people’s money for foreign wars. That’s what’s going on here. And by the way, is there anything more cynical than having Republicans sitting around defending their votes to send $60 billion to Ukraine, than saying that it will help our defense-industrial base, that that will help American businesses. Since when do we have economic development that is being driven by funding war overseas?
Roy said any sane person seeing what is happening on the southern border of the US realises that foreign wars cannot be funded while America’s border is open and exposed to criminals, lawlessness and terrorists coming across the border.
Congressman stated that 7,000 people crossed the border in Texas the other day, 139 of them were Chinese foreigners. He noted:
Speaker Mike Johnson was pretty clear yesterday that this abomination of a bill that came out of the Senate, that those 22 Republicans should not have voted for, that bill will be dead when it comes to the House.
The Senate passed an additional $95 billion national security package for aid to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific region after a tedious procedural process that concluded early Tuesday morning. The final vote passed 70 to 29, with 22 Republicans voting in favour.
The supplemental package does not include any border security provisions and comes at a time when the national debt exceeds $34 trillion. Calls to offset the cost with cuts elsewhere went unheeded.
The package includes $60 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel, $9 billion for humanitarian aid to Gaza and nearly $5 billion for the Indo-Pacific.
Democrats put the package to a vote after Republicans blocked a $118 billion package last Wednesday that also includes numerous border and immigration provisions agreed to by a group of bipartisan senators and Biden officials.
