Failure of border bill creates a political opening for Biden
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Senate Advances Foreign Aid Package After Border Deal Fails
The Facts
The US Senate voted 67-32 on Thursday in favor of a procedural motion to advance a stand-alone foreign aid supplemental bill just a day after the collapse of a bipartisan bill linking foreign aid to rigorous security measures at the southern border.
The $95.3B package to fund Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan comes as the broader measure, which had been privately negotiated for four months, failed to advance in a 49-50 vote — far from the 60 votes needed.
The Spin
Democratic narrative
Republicans have now made clear that all their talk about securing the border is just an attempt to weaponize the issue for election purposes. Americans must be fully aware that Donald Trump and his fellow MAGA Republicans, rather than Joe Biden, are to blame for the failure of the toughest and fairest immigration reform proposed in decades.
Republican narrative
Let alone that the so-called border deal would allocate three times more money for Ukraine than for the southern border, provisions allegedly intended to bolster security in the border were completely unacceptable. This fake border reform would, in fact, make the situation worse as Biden's lenient policies would become law.
Nerd narrative
There's a 75% chance that the GOP will control the Senate after the 2024 elections, according to the Metaculus prediction community.