(03-01-2024, 02:35 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(03-01-2024, 11:30 AM)mikesez Wrote: You're getting distracted.
All of the foreign aid provisions are lumps of money that get used up and are forgotten about within a year.
The border part is intended to change how the border works for everyone crossing it until Congress acts again, which, if history is a guide, might not be for another 30 years.
The border part is the only part that matters, and the only part Republicans in either chamber actually raised serious objections to.

[BLEEP] are you talking about? You and NYC are the typical misinformed "informed.". 11 Republicans said the border bill wasn't strong enough. Mike Johnson said the bill was DOA in his chamber BEFORE Trump said something publicly. Cruz called it a steaming pile of crap, again, before Trump. The freedom caucus objected to Ukraine spending, and, of course, Mike Lee and Rand Paul reflected that on the senate side. 

Yes, Trump said a vote for the bill would help democrats politically. However, you can't just pretend that all roads lead to Trump. Trump's biggest problem is that he says the quiet part out loud, which is why leftist media outlets can so easily use his words to damage the Republican party. It doesn't change the fact that it's propaganda. More importantly, democrats shouldn't get to divest themselves from the mess they created just because it's an election year. You guys need to pull your heads out of your [BLEEP] and start realizing that magic isn't real.

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Lol... post tweets. Lol.

You're still distracted.
You wanted to read a bill.
It doesn't matter who said what when. If you want to read a bill, actually consider what the bill says, and only what the bill says.  Then compare that to other proposals on the table (say HR 2 from last year, or the Rubio bill from 10 years ago), then decide what the differences in approach are and what might actually work. Ignore the dog and the pony.  Watch the ball.

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