Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has scheduled a vote for Wednesday to advance President Biden’s massive $106 billion emergency spending request that includes military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, as well as additional funding for the border, POLITICO reported.
The vote is not expected to pass as Republicans have said they would block Biden’s request if Democrats don’t make certain concessions on border policies. While the bill includes $13.6 billion for border security, the GOP is looking for asylum law changes that would make it more difficult for migrants to enter the country, but a deal hasn’t been reached.
Schumer’s reasoning for scheduling a vote that will likely fail is to instill a sense of urgency for the Senate to advance funding for the proxy war in Ukraine, Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza, and the US military buildup in the Indo-Pacific aimed at China.
“I urge every single senator to think where we are at this moment in history. America’s national security is on the line around the world — in Europe, in the Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific,” Schumer said.
Schumer also announced that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will brief senators in a video conference on Tuesday to make a fresh pitch for the US to continue funding his war with Russia.
The $106 billion includes about $61 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel, and $7 billion for the Indo-Pacific, including $2 billion in military aid expected to mainly go to Taiwan. News of Schumer setting up the vote came after the White House sent a letter to congressional leaders pleading to authorize funding for Ukraine because funds for the proxy war are running out.
Hmmmm……….
The man is full of more sh*t than a Christmas goose. Schumer thinks that Palestinian women and children are a danger to our national security.
“I urge every single senator to think where we are at this moment in
history. America’s national security is on the line around the world —
in Europe, in the Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific,”
The GOP will only let us defend ourselves by attacking everywhere if we extinguish our “beacon of hope to the world”. Fitting. Perhaps a lot fewer people would flee across our borders if we weren’t systematically lighting the world on fire.
It astonishes me that people can not understand that these wars, sanctions, and destabilization efforts are the root cause of all the migration that they’re complaining about. I understand their point of view because there is not enough housing, good jobs, etc, for everyone right now, but they are blaming the refugees and migrants as if it’s their fault instead of world leaders.
if we call them “beanies” and “towel-heads” etc then it is super easy to blame all the woes of the world on them.
oh my car got a flat-tire! stupid beanies.
what
As more and more people become aware of government corruption, less want to join the military. So they create destabilization and desperation in order to herd refugees around in order to get enough recruits for the military and exploitation. They also want to destabilize their own countries as it’s global. Both sides of the political aisle take fake stances, but their end goal is this and we are all viewed as cattle and human resources for their benefit. If that means purposefully lowering the standards of living, that’s what they’ll do.
Coolie labor (hyperexploitation) is key to Capitalism, as Unions are to Proletarianism
-the marxian “Labor theiry of Value”, the fountainhead of Profit. And we couldn’t afford our McNuggets if Tyson had to pay it chicken pluckers a union wage, …
I just hope partisan gridlock manages to save the day and this monstrosity gets jammed in the gears of DC. For now at least.
They are all in the game. The pretend “compromise” will happen, and then the pretend blame game will ensue.
that will not work for long. too many people are involved with the graft of the Defense Corporations and their access to the Pentagon and Congress
$106 Billion, how many schools would that pay for. IDK, but probably quite a few.
Spy, you know the answer already. If we’re gonna all die for “Freedom and Democracy,” why pay for schools? Just give them the money. If they need $106 Billion, give them double. By the way, I’ve never met a spy who’s antiwar, nor an “isolationist.” wut
“Schumer also announced that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will brief senators in a video conference on Tuesday…” What? Schumer is not getting another chance to KI$$ Zelensky’s A$$ goodbye in real life? Will they at least please send him a 3D silicon replica full of that brown goo for him to fondle with his nose? …No? …That’s disgusting? Not fair! They do it all the time for Netanyahu!
Biden is a corrupt warmonger. Period
“I urge every single senator to think where we are at this moment in history. America’s national security is on the line around the world — in Europe, in the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific,” Schumer said on the floor. “[The supplemental] could determine the trajectory of democracy for years to come. We are at a moment in history.”
Not only are there hordes of Russians , Chinese and Hamas (they’re tunneling in) on our borders because there is no supplemental bill but democracy itself is in danger.
Our Republic, was never created to meddle in the political issues of other countries. Our Republic is for the purpose of allowing people to live in Freedom, not create or support Foreign Wars. These actions of Congress are NOT Constitutional and anyone voting for these illegal actions should be OUT. Who are we borrowing from, Zelensky/Zionist, they have more money than we do. Taiwan, why would they not have money? Killing people and money laundering, has become sport for Biden and Congress.
Your Republic was created to overthrow the revolution and put the pre-war planter/merchant political class back in power minus a king to restrain them. That’s why the ink wasn’t dry on the Constitution before Washington personally led an army into Pennsylvania to put the serfs back in their place and shut up all the nonsense about “liberty.”
Amazingly sober assessment of historical reality.
‘ “I urge every single senator to think where we are at this moment in history. America’s national security is on the line around the world — in Europe, in the Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific,” Schumer said. ‘
No, our security has nothing to do with those places. In fact, your meddling and warmongering is only making us and the world less safe.
There are millions of homeless people here. Elderly people are on the streets because their SS checks don’t cover expenses. People are racking up debt for basic living. Health care and education is wildly expensive. If these people really cared about “national security,” they’d spend that money where it’s needed on its own people instead of trying to maintain their imperial hegemony around the world.
The empire is falling.
I just want to say that as long as Politicians pockets are lined by Corporations and Lobbiests there is no.chance of reform of a totally corrupt system of Government
I agree
“America’s national security”??? surely you jest.
1.Ukraine has drained your coffers and lost.
2. Israel is living on your gifts and showing the world its genocidal violence
3.Taiwan is a part of China, relies on the mainland for exports and imports, and arming it will cause even more problems for you and for Taiwan itself
The rape of American taxpayers goes on and on.
The Uni-party has never met a war that they don’t want to use to fleece America to build their own net worth.