Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-fetterman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Fetterman</a> (D-PA) urged fellow Senate Democrats to &#8220;engage&#8221; in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border security</a> talks with Republicans as the number of migrants entering the United States soars.
The comments were published on Thursday, less than 24 hours after GOP senators blocked a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-06/ukraine-aid-blocked-by-senate-republicans-over-immigration-clash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$111 billion supplemental funding bill</a> as they demanded that an immigration overhaul be coupled with the national security measure.
&#8220;I hope Democrats can understand that it isn’t xenophobic to be concerned about the border,&#8221; Fetterman <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/12/07/congress/fetterman-on-border-00130639" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told POLITICO</a>, alluding to those who <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/595696-systemic-racism-is-rooted-in-immigration-laws-it-can-no-longer-be-ignored/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argue there is racism</a> in the <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/us-immigration-policy-a-classic-unappreciated-example-of-structural-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enforcement</a> of immigration laws. &#8220;It’s a reasonable conversation, and Democrats should engage.&#8221;
Citing the <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/10/24/border-crossings-cbp-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly 270,000 encounters</a> at the southwest border last month reported by federal officials, Fetterman said, &#8220;Honestly, it’s astonishing. And this isn’t a Fox News kind of statistic. This is the government’s.&#8221; He added, &#8220;You essentially have Pittsburgh showing up there at the border.&#8221;
Senate Democrats seek to answer President Joe Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/whats-bidens-106-billion-supplemental-funding-request-2023-10-20/#:~:text=Oct%2020(Reuters)%20%2D%20U.S.,Indo%2DPacific%20and%20border%20enforcement." target="_blank" rel="noopener">supplemental funding request</a> — which includes money for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and even bolstering border security — but they have clashed with Republicans who insist on significant immigration reforms such as <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-republicans-asylum-limits-funding-bill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asylum limits</a>.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who has taken charge of the negotiations for the Democrats, decried what he <a href="https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-statement-on-failed-vote-to-pass-national-security-supplemental" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> &#8220;hardline demands to shut down the border&#8221; by the Republicans. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), his GOP counterpart in the talks, <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorLankford/status/1732763410104770688" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;We cannot work to secure other nations while our own border remains a massive national security risk.&#8221;
As of Thursday evening, negotiations between the parties appeared to get back on track after <a href="https://twitter.com/PunchbowlNews/status/1732891953535082520" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republicans made a counter-offer</a>. And Biden has signaled openness to making <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4345510-biden-willing-to-make-significant-compromises-on-border-policy-amid-fight-for-ukraine-funding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;significant compromises&#8221;</a> when it comes to the border.
In the POLITICO interview, Fetterman reportedly did not state any particular concessions that he&#8217;d entertain, saying he did not want to &#8220;paint myself into a corner.&#8221; But he did reject any effort to crack down on &#8220;Dreamers&#8221; or illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children — a group that includes his wife <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/us/gisele-fetterman-bio/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gisele Fetterman</a> — and he called a border security bill that <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> the GOP-led House earlier this year an “OnlyFans wish list&#8221; for Republicans.
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Still, Fetterman pitched himself as “perhaps the most pro-immigration member of the Senate,&#8221; and said, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t met anyone that can have a really crisp, cogent solution or easy solution on, &#8216;Well, what do you do when you have roughly a city similar in size of Pittsburgh coming up to the border?'&#8221;

Senator John Fetterman

‘It Isn’t Xenophobic’: Fetterman Encourages Border Security Talks

'It Isn’t Xenophobic': Fetterman Encourages Border Security Talks

Border Crisis

Congress

John Fetterman

U.S.

U.S. Senate

The son of Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) was charged on Thursday in connection to a crash that killed a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/north-dakota" target="_blank" rel="noopener">North Dakota</a> sheriff&#8217;s deputy this week.
Police received a report of a stolen SUV that was being driven on Wednesday night by 42-year-old Ian Cramer and, when law enforcement approached him, he drove off.
Ian Cramer was charged with felony counts of manslaughter, fleeing a police officer, and reckless endangerment. He also was charged with a misdemeanor count of driving with a suspended license.
Ian Cramer&#8217;s mother took him to the hospital on Wednesday night over concerns about his mental health. When she got out of the car, Ian jumped in the driver&#8217;s seat and took off.
Law enforcement officials spotted the vehicle over an hour later and the situation quickly turned into a high-speed chase with Ian Cramer reaching speeds of over 100 mph.
Deputy Paul Martin took cover behind his patrol car after setting up a tire deflation device on the road. When Ian Cramer saw the device, he swerved and hit the patrol car, thus ramming “directly into Martin’s person and launching him for about 100 feet,” court documents said.
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Sen. Cramer addressed the incident in a statement, saying that his son &#8220;suffers from serious mental disorders which manifest in severe paranoia and hallucinations.&#8221;
&#8220;Kris was with Ian when he insisted on going to his brother Ike. Ike died in 2018,&#8221; said Cramer. &#8220;Kris took Ian to the Sanford Health emergency room in Bismarck. When she got out of our vehicle, Ian jumped into the driver’s seat and fled. Our daughter was able to track the car through Kris’ cell phone and lead officers to him in Mercer County, ND.&#8221;
He said that he was focused on getting back to the state so that he could be with his family.
&#8220;We grieve especially for the family of the hero who tried to help Ian, and we pray for our gracious God to show up as He always does in tragedy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We ask the public for prayers for the lost officer’s family and colleagues who serve us every day and are grateful for all they do for us. We also ask God for healing for Ian. We love him and hurt deeply.&#8221;

Sen. Kevin Cramer

Senator Kevin Cramer’s Son Charged With Manslaughter Over Killing Of Sheriff’s Deputy

Senator Kevin Cramer's Son Charged With Manslaughter Over Killing Of Sheriff’s Deputy

Crime

Law Enforcement

Mental Health

North Dakota

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) said his 42-year-old son was involved in a police chase on Wednesday that came to a tragic end, resulting in the death of a sheriff’s deputy.
A Mercer County, North Dakota, Sheriff’s deputy was killed as police engaged in a pursuit of Ian Cramer after the senator’s son reportedly took off with his mother’s car. Ian — who “suffers from severe mental disorders which manifest in severe paranoia and hallucinations,” according to the senator — was taken to the emergency room by Cramer’s wife, Kris, after he told her he wanted to go see his brother who died five years ago. When Kris got out of the car at the hospital, Ian jumped into the driver’s seat and sped off, the senator said in a statement, KFYR <a href="https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/12/07/mercer-county-sheriffs-deputy-dies-during-pursuit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
“Our daughter was able to track the car through Kris’ cell phone and lead officers to him in Mercer County, ND,” Cramer said in a statement. “We don’t have more details right now but will work with authorities to properly inform the public.” 
The Mercer County Sheriff’s Department initially located Ian and the stolen SUV in Hazen, North Dakota, where officers approached him, but the 42-year-old fled, according to authorities. As police pursued him, a Mercer County Sheriff’s deputy stood alongside the road next to a parked patrol car, preparing to deploy a spike strip to deflate the tires of the vehicle Ian was driving. The SUV, however, veered off the road and rammed into the parked patrol car head-on. The crash pushed the patrol car back into the deputy standing on the side of the road, killing him, KFYR reported.  
Ian was rushed to the hospital following the crash before being taken to the Mercer County Jail. No charges have been filed yet as the North Dakota Highway Patrol investigates the incident. Sen. Cramer said he and his family are grieving for their son and the deputy’s family and asked the public for their prayers. 
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“I will take the first flight I can to be with our family as we grieve what has happened,” Cramer added. “We grieve especially for the family of the hero who tried to help Ian, and we pray for our gracious God to show up as He always does in tragedy. We ask the public for prayers for the lost officer’s family and colleagues who serve us every day and are grateful for all they do for us. We also ask God for healing for Ian. We love him and hurt deeply.”

Kevin Cramer

GOP Senator’s Son Involved In Police Chase Resulting In Death Of Sheriff’s Deputy

Car Crash

Police

Politics

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was reportedly incensed during a classified Senate intelligence briefing on Ukraine Tuesday after multiple Republican senators brought up security at the U.S. southern border. 
The briefing included top Biden administration and military officials such as Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Charles Q. Brown Jr., The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4344137-senate-classified-briefing-ukraine-border/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Sens. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) reportedly grilled the senior officials in the room, asking them pointed questions about the importance of securing the southern border.
“I asked Gen. Brown [for] his best military advice. Is supporting Ukraine and Israel important enough that Democrats could at least consider reluctantly supporting some southern border security? He wanted to talk about Ukraine,” Cramer said.
The question made Schumer go &#8220;nuts,&#8221; according to Cramer. The Senate majority leader later said the Republican senators were acting disrespectfully toward the military officials.
“One of them started — was disrespectful — and started screaming at one of the generals and challenging him why he didn’t go to the border,” Schumer said, according to The Hill. 
Schumer then accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) of attempting to “hijack” the intelligence briefing to address Republicans’ concerns about the border crisis. 
“It was immediately hijacked by Leader McConnell. The first question — instead of asking our panelists — he called on Lankford to give a five-minute talk about the negotiations on the border, and that wasn’t the purpose of the meeting at all,” said Schumer. “And then when I brought up the idea that they could do an amendment and have the ability to get something done on [the] border, [Republican colleagues] got stuck.” 
Sen. Angus King (I-ME), who caucuses with the Democrats, reportedly agreed that those in the meeting should address the ongoing border crisis and defended Republicans who sought answers on the issue. 
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“Sen. King said, ‘Hey, this may not have been the time that I want to discuss this, but it’s an important topic. The president put it on the agenda with the supplemental having border funding. This is the only time we’re all together, so it’s totally legitimate for us to have that discussion,’” according to a Republican senator who was familiar with the talks.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are looking to push the Biden administration to do more to address the border crisis as President Joe Biden urges Congress to approve more funding for Ukraine. After the White House sent a letter to Congress requesting more funds for the European country, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) responded by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-johnson-blasts-biden-admin-in-dust-up-over-ukraine-aid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasting</a> the Biden administration for “failing to substantively address” Republicans’ concerns about a resolution in Ukraine while “continually ignoring the catastrophe at our own border.”
“House Republicans have resolved that any national security supplemental package must begin with our own border,” Johnson said. “We believe both issues can be agreed upon if Senate Democrats and the White House will negotiate reasonably.”

Chuck Schumer

Schumer Goes ‘Nuts’ During Classified Briefing On Ukraine After His GOP Colleagues Bring Up Border Security: Report

Schumer Goes 'Nuts' During Classified Briefing On Ukraine After His GOP Colleagues Bring Up Border Security: Report

Biden Administration

Southern Border

Ukraine

Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> broke a longstanding record in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> on Tuesday.
With a <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1181/vote_118_1_00327.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vote</a> to bust a 50-50 standoff and advance the nomination of Loren AliKhan to be a U.S. district judge, Harris <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/TieVotes." target="_blank" rel="noopener">surpassed the 191-year-old record</a> of 31 tie-breaking votes set by John C. Calhoun, who served as vice president from 1825 to 1832 under Presidents John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) joined with Republicans in voting against invoking cloture.
&#8220;Today is historic,&#8221; said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after the vote. &#8220;Vice President Harris has just cast her 32nd tie-breaking vote, the most tiebreakers ever. I join all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle thanking the vice president for her leadership and for making the work of the Senate possible.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> Kamala Harris cast her record 32nd tie-breaking vote in the Senate to advance the nomination of Loren AliKhan to be a U.S. district judge.
The record was previously held by John C. Calhoun, who served as VP from 1825 to 1832 under Presidents Quincy Adams and Jackson. <a href="https://t.co/zMSwyjGOTH">pic.twitter.com/zMSwyjGOTH</a>
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Schumer went on to credit Harris for helping Senate Democrats pass key pieces of legislation, including the American Rescue Plan and Inflation Reduction Act, as well as assisting them in confirming President Joe Biden&#8217;s nominations for federal judgeships.
The majority leader also thanked Harris for casting tie-breaking votes &#8220;all this while juggling the immense responsibilities of her office&#8221; and made the case for how the vice president&#8217;s &#8220;great milestone&#8221; is just part of a &#8220;greater legacy.&#8221;
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Harris, a former California attorney general and U.S. senator, has served as vice president for nearly three years. She is seeking another term in the White House as part of Biden&#8217;s 2024 re-election ticket despite both having <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/kamala-harris/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approval</a> <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">numbers</a> hovering in the 30s. By comparison, Congress has an approval rating that has sunk below 20%, according to <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/congress/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s poll tracker</a>.
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Leader Schumer presents Vice President Harris with the golden gavel after she broke the record by casting the most tie-breaking votes in the Senate in U.S. history <a href="https://t.co/k5aoyJPgIp">https://t.co/k5aoyJPgIp</a> <a href="https://t.co/yJGvqDVUyU">pic.twitter.com/yJGvqDVUyU</a>
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Harris received a golden gavel as a reward for casting her record-breaking vote. Schumer presented the trinket to her after taking it out of a box in front of reporters. Harris smiled and embraced Schumer, saying she was &#8220;truly honored.&#8221;
Doug Andres, press secretary for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), responded to video of the celebration, <a href="https://twitter.com/DougAndres/status/1732101501378593045" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> on X, &#8220;this is painful to watch but i cant look away.&#8221; He also quipped, &#8220;feels like a gift Schumer found in his desk this morning.&#8221;

Sen. Schumer Presents Golden Gavel To Vice President Kamala Harris

VP Harris Sets New Record With Tie-Breaking Vote

Kamala Harris

A top <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> Democrat said on Monday that he believes <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal immigrants</a> should have a path to U.S. citizenship by joining the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/military" target="_blank" rel="noopener">military</a>.
Senate Majority Whip <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dick-durbin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dick Durbin</a> (D-IL), who is also chairman of the Judiciary Committee, floated the idea during <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?532182-1/senate-session" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks on the Senate floor</a> after he commented on GOP resistance to approving <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-johnson-blasts-biden-admin-in-dust-up-over-ukraine-aid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more aid to Ukraine</a> without comprehensive border security reforms.
&#8220;What troubles me about the debate now about the southern border is that it is one-half of the immigration equation,&#8221; Durbin said. &#8220;Yes, we need order at the border. Yes, we need to have changes in the laws that reflect the reality of the overwhelming numbers from all over the world who are coming to our shores and our border.&#8221;
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Senator Dick Durbin wants to make it possible for illegal immigrants to join the US military: &quot;Do you know what the recruiting numbers are at the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force? They can&#39;t reach their quotas each month. They can&#39;t find enough people to join.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/UWuGSfrSkF">pic.twitter.com/UWuGSfrSkF</a>
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&#8220;But there&#8217;s also an incredible demand for legal immigration into this country, even now,&#8221; Durbin continued. He then referenced <a href="https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Immigrant%20Veterans%20-%20Deported%20by%20the%20Same%20Nation%20They%20Sacrificed%20to%20Defend.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a> <a href="https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2023-11-10/veterans-legislation-duckworth-immigrants-benefits-12006449.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered</a> by his fellow lawmaker from Illinois, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), to ensure immigrant service members get assistance to obtain U.S. citizenship and veterans&#8217; benefits.
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&#8220;Her bill — and I hope I describe it accurately — says that if you are an undocumented person in this country and you can pass the physical and the required test, background test, the like, that you can serve in our military, and if you do it honorably, we will make you citizens of the United States,&#8221; Durbin said.
&#8220;Do we need that? Do you know what the recruiting numbers are at the Army and the Navy and the Air Force? They can&#8217;t reach their quotas each month. They can&#8217;t find enough people to join our military forces. And there are those who are undocumented who want the chance to serve and risk their lives for that country. Should we give them a chance? I think we should,&#8221; Durbin added.
Durbin&#8217;s recruitment pitch, which suggests an <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/military-recruitment-crisis-appealing-to-legal-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expansion</a> of the U.S. military&#8217;s ability to enlist <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/11/us-military-offers-legal-migrants-path-to-citizenship-amid-recruiting-shortfall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">foreigners beyond legal migrants</a> for a chance at citizenship, was met with pushback from Republicans on social media.
&#8220;So, the Democrats want to flood the country with illegal aliens, enlist them in the military, and make them citizens. They broke the laws invading this country, and they expect them to take an oath to support and defend our nation? Are they out of their minds?&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/TXRandy14/status/1732082386244948286" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX).
&#8220;Manning our military with people whose first act in our nation was to violate its sovereignty can never be trusted with our defense,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/joekent16jan19/status/1732032721386676262" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Joe Kent, a Republican and former Green Beret running for a House seat in Washington state.
&#8220;Secure our borders, deport the illegals, restore pride in our military by restoring the meritocracy &amp; ending foolish interventions,&#8221; Kent added. &#8220;I served w/ many great Americans who earned their citizenship by serving in our military, all of them legally entered our nation. We cannot tolerate or normalize the use of illegals in any workforce, especially our military.&#8221;

Senator Dick Durbin

Top Senate Dem Favors Citizenship For Illegal Immigrants Through Military Service

Dick Durbin

Illegal Immigration

Military

A group of Republican senators is pushing President Joe Biden to take a stronger stance on China and Iran with legislation that would aim to drive a wedge between the two countries.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) plans to lead a group of eight senators in introducing the Iran China Accountability Act on Tuesday. The bill would restrict Iran from striking a new nuclear deal with the United States unless Tehran distances itself from Beijing, according to a summary of the bill obtained by The Daily Wire.
The seven GOP co-sponsors are Sens. Kevin Cramer and John Hoeven of North Dakota, Ted Cruz of Texas, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott of Florida, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina.
“Iran would love nothing more than to enter into another nuclear deal that props up their terrorist activity and also benefits their fellow New Axis of Evil partner — Communist China,” Blackburn told The Daily Wire in a statement. “As Iran and the CCP commit egregious human rights abuses against their own citizens and Iran-backed Hamas enacts horrific violence against Israel, it has become increasingly critical that the Biden administration holds the Iranian regime fully accountable.&#8221;
“There must be no nuclear deal until we can ensure our national security interests are protected,” she said.
A version of the bill has <a href="https://good.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-good-introduces-iran-china-accountability-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">been</a> <a href="https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2022/5/blackburn-leads-legislation-calling-out-iran-china-ties" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> by Republican lawmakers to the House or Senate every year since 2021. The legislation has received renewed support from GOP lawmakers following the terror attack by Hamas, an Iranian-backed group, on Israel on October 7.
The Iran China Accountability Act would require a two-thirds majority in the Senate to approve any new nuclear deal in that body. It would also freeze a nuclear deal unless Iran and China met a number of benchmarks, such as terminating security and military partnerships between the two and China releasing imprisoned Uyghurs. Iran would also have to verify the destruction of all chemical weapons and the material and infrastructure used to construct them.
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The legislation also condemns the terror group Hamas for attacks on Israel.
Striking a new nuclear deal with Iran has been a top foreign policy priority for the Biden administration. In October, the Senate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-confirms-iran-nuclear-deal-architect-jack-lew-for-ambassador-to-israel-despite-gop-criticism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> the White House’s preferred diplomat to handle U.S. relations with Israel, Jack Lew, the architect of the Iran nuclear deal. Israel opposed the Iran nuclear deal when it was first struck under former President Barack Obama and has been skeptical of Biden’s efforts to revive the agreement.
Earlier this year, Washington agreed to a prisoner swap with Tehran that included the release of $6 billion in frozen Iranian oil money. The House last week passed a bill that would freeze those funds with significant bipartisan support, setting up a potentially embarrassing setback for the White House and its goals with Iran.
A group of 26 Republican senators <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-senators-warn-that-biden-is-bypassing-congress-to-enter-nuclear-deal-with-iran" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> the White House in August against attempting to bypass Congress with any new nuclear deal.
“We are also worried that your administration is attempting to sidestep Congress and pursue other pathways to financially compensate Iran in an attempt to renegotiate a successor to the ill-fated 2015 nuclear deal,” the senators said in a letter. “Any agreement with the Iranian regime that entails financial reward for malign behavior is wholly unacceptable.”

Ebrahim Raisi, Xi Jinping

GOP Senators Push Bill To Block Iran Nuclear Deal Until Tehran Severs Ties With China

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Iran

Joe Biden

Marsha Blackburn

A subpoena request filed in Congress to grant lawmakers access to the flight logs connected to deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was allegedly blocked last week by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL).
Durbin, who leads the Senate Judiciary Committee, reportedly rejected the request brought forward by Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn in early November. She accused Durbin of standing in the way of certifying the request after a contentious committee meeting on Thursday.
“What are Democrats trying to hide?” Blackburn said in a post on X.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorDurbin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenatorDurbin</a> BLOCKED my request to subpoena Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs.
What are Democrats trying to hide?
&mdash; Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1730275853748126138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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During a committee hearing last month surrounding Durbin’s attempts to investigate Supreme Court ethics issues, Blackburn filed the request in the upper chamber of Congress. Amid a fiery exchange between the two lawmakers, Blackburn announced a series of subpoena requests — including one against against Epstein’s estate to identify everyone listed on the flight records that have been said to include several high-profile figures worldwide.
An aide for the Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jeffrey-epstein-flight-logs-denied-democrat-led-senate-judiciary-committee-blackburn-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News Digital in a statement that Durbin would have stayed in the panel on Thursday to allow Republicans to offer and debate the 177 filed amendments, noting the committee would vote on authorizing the subpoena after. But Republican lawmakers on the committee allegedly began to filibuster during the hearing and didn’t allow Blackburn to offer the first amendment to the authorization, the Democratic committee aide claimed.
Blackburn <a href="https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2023/11/breaking-judiciary-chair-durbin-blocks-senator-blackburn-s-request-to-subpoena-sotomayor-staff-epstein-flight-logs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the hearing a &#8220;sad day in the history of the prestigious Judiciary Committee and further underscores the Left’s two tiers of justice crusade.&#8221;
“They also don’t want to have a conversation about the estate of Jeffrey Epstein to find out the names of every person who participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s human trafficking ring,” she added.
Epstein died in his New York prison cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges that involved running a “vast network” of underage girls for sex. He had pleaded not guilty to the charges before his death at 66 years old.
Insider previously reported that Epstein had owned at least three jets, including a Gulfstream II sold in November 2013, a Gulfstream IV sold before his arrest, and a Boeing 727 nicknamed the “Lolita Express,” which allegedly transported prominent individuals and girls all around the world.
The so-called Lolita Express private jet has been the subject of controversy amid the accusations brought against Epstein and, in particular, the flight records connected to the plane that supposedly include the names of those who traveled with him.
Victims of Epstein and at least one of his pilots have since come out and claimed that public figures, including Bill Gates, Prince Andrew, and Donald Trump, had traveled with the disgraced financier.
In December 2021, prosecutors reportedly released thousands of flight records in the sex-trafficking trial of his alleged accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who also pleaded not guilty but was ultimately convicted.
Insider reported flight manifests unsealed in a defamation case against Maxwell showed that some names listed included former President Bill Clinton, supermodel Naomi Campbell, and the astronaut John Glenn.

GOP Senate Judiciary Members Hold Press Conference On The Supreme Court

Sen. Blackburn Says Democrat-Led Senate Committee Chair Blocked Epstein Flight Logs Subpoena

Ghislaine Maxwell

Jeffrey Epstein

One of the biggest champions of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFO</a> transparency in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a> has reservations about the much-hyped disclosure legislation from Senate Majority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY) that is now being considered as part of the conference process to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the next National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Of particular concern, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) told The Daily Wire on Friday, is how the <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-rounds-introduce-new-legislation-to-declassify-government-records-related-to-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-and-ufos_modeled-after-jfk-assassination-records-collection-act--as-an-amendment-to-ndaa">bipartisan Senate amendment</a> known as the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure Act of 2023 is modeled after the <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JFK Records Act of 1992</a> — which was passed almost 30 years after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and culminated earlier this year with the completion of a National Archives review that made most <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/politics/jfk-assassination-documents-national-archives-review/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">but not all</a> of the records public.
&#8220;Here we are, 60 years later, and we still don&#8217;t know anything,&#8221; Burchett said, alluding to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-secret-service-agent-who-witnessed-jfk-assassination-raises-questions-about-magic-bullet-theory-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lingering questions about Kennedy&#8217;s death</a>. &#8220;So are we going to create another bureaucracy? I just want transparency. If it deals with UFOs or UAPs, turn it loose. Quit hiding it. Let&#8217;s go.&#8221;
The UAP Disclosure Act, which Schumer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-moves-to-force-disclosure-of-ufo-secrets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unveiled</a> this summer with Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity for the Armed Services Committee, would give heads of government offices 300 days to organize records in their possession and give them to a review board, members of which would be nominated by the president and approved by the Senate, to determine whether certain documents should remain classified. Similar to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-pledges-to-release-all-jfk-assassination-files-if-re-elected">JFK Records Act</a>, the president will have the ultimate authority to postpone disclosure of UAP records if there is an &#8220;identifiable harm&#8221; to national security, but otherwise calls for their release &#8220;not later than the date that is 25 years after the date of the first creation&#8221; of the documents by the originating government entities.
When it comes to the review board, the amendment dictates that nominees cannot have attachments to any legacy programs that may work with unknown technologies or non-human intelligence and it requires an eclectic membership that includes at least one current or former national security official, one current or former foreign service official, one scientist or engineer, one economist, one professional historian, and one sociologist.
Burchett, who launched <a href="https://burchett.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-burchett-launches-uap-caucus-leads-letter-intelligence-community-inspector" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the House UAP Caucus</a> this year amid growing speculation about what the government may be hiding about UFOs, questioned why such a specific makeup for the review board is drawn out in the legislation.
&#8220;Why are these people on there? And you know as well as I do when they do these things — and it wasn&#8217;t Chuck Schumer that wrote it, obviously; it’s a staffer with input from somebody from the outside. Do they have somebody already in mind? And are they already committed to one train of thought or the other? I just don&#8217;t like this,&#8221; he said. Pressed on whether he feared candidates may be &#8220;bought off,&#8221; Burchett suggested that &#8220;compromised&#8221; would be a better term. He also posited that &#8220;lawyers have got enough loopholes in there&#8221; that would protect anyone in the military industrial complex who may be involved in secret UAP programs.
There may be a remedy already in play.
Burchett <a href="https://twitter.com/RepTimBurchett/status/1679211450831630339" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered</a> a one-and-a-half page amendment to the House version of the NDAA that would force Department of Defense (DoD) officials to <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/07/14/defense-bill-amendments-target-increased-ufo-transparency-for-public/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declassify records</a> related to publicly known sightings of UAPs in 180 days. He and fellow House lawmakers who are pushing for an end to UFO secrecy hope it gets passed along with Schumer&#8217;s much longer (64 pages) legislation.
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&#8220;I think if you have both of them in place, then the information that comes out of the DoD will also be a check, if you will, on the agency that would be collecting information from all the other agencies before it served you,&#8221; Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) told The Daily Wire. &#8220;And that way you could, if one agency said, &#8216;No, we don&#8217;t have information,&#8217; that would be one thing. But if one agency has certain information at all, we can just compare that or question or query agencies, if that makes sense.&#8221;
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), another member of the House <a href="https://burchett.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-burchett-launches-uap-caucus-leads-letter-intelligence-community-inspector" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UAP Caucus</a>, said in an interview, &#8220;Burchett&#8217;s amendment is pretty straightforward &#8212; and obviously, if either of them passed, it&#8217;s a step forward in the right direction, right? But our main concerns with the Schumer amendment was that there&#8217;s this waiting period similar to what happened with JFK, and we just feel that with the amount of pushback in addition to the request for funds that we&#8217;re constantly getting, it&#8217;s really important for transparency that we know what&#8217;s happening and that the American people do as well.&#8221;
Intermixed in the debate over disclosure have been claims <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/david-grusch-on-joe-rogan-experience/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-expect-to-get-classified-briefings-on-ufos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">whistleblower David Grusch</a>, a former U.S. intelligence and military official who claims the government is covering up a UFO retrieval program and wrongfully keeping Congress in the dark, and <a href="https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/black-friday-republican-leadership-takes-axe-to-ufo-transparency-legislation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> by the Liberation Times that some in House leadership have been resistant to the UAP transparency push and may try to weaken some provisions — including one in Schumer&#8217;s UAP amendment that concerns the use of eminent domain by the federal government to seize materials from private citizens or entities.
One member who repeatedly gets mentioned as an opponent to the UAP legislation is Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. But Turner <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1729941909097824287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied to NewsNation</a> on Wednesday that he was &#8220;holding up&#8221; the Senate amendment, even though he opined that it is a &#8220;poorly drafted piece of legislation,&#8221; and insisted that no members of the &#8220;pro-alien caucus&#8221; in the House had spoken to him about any issues regarding UFOs.
When asked by The Daily Wire on Friday if the UAP Caucus had spoken to Turner, Burchett said, &#8220;From what I understand, we have since then.&#8221; Burchett also noted that he had talked with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and &#8220;got him to commit to transparency.&#8221;
The Tennessee Republican also issued a message of caution to people who are cheering on the UAP Caucus, saying, &#8220;If they get the Schumer bill on, all the UFO people are going to cheer, and then they&#8217;re not going to get anything out of it. And then they&#8217;re going to come back and say, &#8216;Hey, what happened?&#8217; It&#8217;s just not going to happen.&#8221; Burchett added later, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a lot of positive vibes on any of this. The same old stuff over and over and over again. I know these UFO people are excited, and I&#8217;m happy for them. But I just know the reality.&#8221;
Still, members of the UAP Caucus say they would be happy with any step forward on transparency, and that effort extends beyond just legislation. Luna said that she anticipates another hearing, though likely not until next year. Burlison said the &#8220;next big step&#8221; for the caucus is to view Grusch&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/realannapaulina/status/1720652194490270037" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inspector general report</a> in a secure setting now that they have permission.
Members also indicated they still would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-reps-see-new-opportunity-for-ufo-select-committee-request-with-speaker-mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">like to see a select committee</a>, which could give them more power to gather evidence, as well as need-to-know authorizations, but Burchett said on Friday that he has yet to speak to Johnson about that particular issue. Yet another member of the UAP Caucus, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), told The Daily Wire that a select panel would be valuable because it could bring in &#8220;folks from other committees that may either have an interest or lend some area of expertise that would work best on a committee like that. I think it&#8217;s the way forward.&#8221;
As for what drives the UAP caucus, the answers seem to vary. During a press conference this week in which members talked about how their investigative efforts have faced pushback from the U.S. intelligence community and the military, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) said that people trying to stop disclosure <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMoskowitz/status/1730337510100730301" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;piques the interest.&#8221;</a> Ogles affirmed to The Daily Wire that he&#8217;s been particularly vocal about national security, specifically reports of mysterious craft spotted around nuclear facilities and the prospect of a foreign adversary operating in U.S. airspace. Burchett bemoaned how the government&#8217;s tendency to issue denials when it comes to UFOs does not square with the &#8220;tens of millions of dollars researching something&#8221; that the feds claim &#8220;doesn&#8217;t exist.&#8221;
And when it comes to what lawmakers have gleaned from whistleblowers so far in their investigation, Burchett said he has been apprised of some out-of-this-world stuff. &#8220;Yeah, they are craft that no one, either foreign or domestic, has,&#8221; he told The Daily Wire. Asked about if he&#8217;s seen photos of images, Burchett added, &#8220;Absolutely. And they defy all — some of them defy logic, any kind of logic, in our realm of thinking. But again, if something can travel at those incredible speeds and survive. The human body can&#8217;t survive that. Those Gs, it would just liquefy you, literally. It&#8217;s kind of creepy really.&#8221;

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN)

‘Another Bureaucracy?’ Top House UFO Investigator Cautions Disclosure Legislation May Be A Dud; Offers Additional Pathway

'Another Bureaucracy?' Top House UFO Investigator Cautions Disclosure Legislation May Be A Dud; Offers Additional Pathway

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U.S. House of Representatives

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reportedly used the Heimlich maneuver on Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) today after she apparently began to choke on food.
&#8220;Rand Paul used the Heimlich maneuver on Joni Ernst at Senate lunch today, she was choking on some food, per attendees,&#8221; said POLITICO reporter Burgess Everett. &#8220;She’s OK, senators say.&#8221;
Ernst confirmed the news on X, posting from her official government account: &#8220;Can’t help but choke on the woke policies Dems are forcing down our throats. Thanks, Dr. @RandPaul!&#8221;
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Can’t help but choke on the woke policies Dems are forcing down our throats. Thanks, Dr. <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RandPaul</a>! <a href="https://t.co/OJDdqpQXjR">https://t.co/OJDdqpQXjR</a>
&mdash; Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJoniErnst/status/1730305438585946450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“God bless Rand Paul,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). “I never thought I’d say that.”
Paul, who is a medical doctor, also received praise from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who called him a &#8220;HERO&#8221; on X.
&#8220;Rand Paul = HERO,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;Not all heroes wear capes. Not all senators can quote Mises and Hayek — while saving lives!&#8221;
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Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) said in a tweet earlier in the afternoon that food at the Senate lunch was provided by Ernst and the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association.
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Yummm an Iowa chop from Sen Ernst &amp; the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association for lunch <a href="https://t.co/dGYFaegwN4">pic.twitter.com/dGYFaegwN4</a>
&mdash; Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1730279620748980642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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This report has been updated to include additional information.

Rand Paul

Rand Paul Uses Heimlich Maneuver To Save U.S. Senator Choking On Lunch

Charles Grassley

Joni Ernst

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democrat-led Senate</a> rejected another nominee from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> on Tuesday.
A bid to advance the nomination of Jose Javier Rodriguez to be an assistant secretary of labor failed to reach the requisite simple majority to invoke cloture and reach a final vote.
Two Democrats — Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) — joined with Republicans to oppose the motion while five members did not vote.
The final tally was <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1181/vote_118_1_00318.htm#top" target="_blank" rel="noopener">51-44</a>. Multiple reports noted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4332167-biden-labor-nominee-stalls-senate-manchin-menendez/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">changed</a> <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/11/28/congress/labor-nominee-falls-senate-00128940" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his vote</a> to a &#8220;nay,&#8221; allowing him to bring up the nomination again at a future date.
A spokesman for Manchin <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/11/28/congress/labor-nominee-falls-senate-00128940" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told POLITICO</a> that Manchin voted against Rodriguez due to &#8220;concerns about his political activism and lack of experience.&#8221;
Biden first <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/02/president-biden-announces-seven-key-nominations-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nominated</a> Rodriguez, an attorney and former member of the Florida state legislature, to be the assistant secretary for employment and training at the Labor Department more than two years ago. Rodriquez&#8217;s nomination got stuck in a committee deadlock in 2021, which led to Biden renominating him in 2023, <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/senate-rejects-biden-pick-for-dol-training-arm-after-long-wait" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Bloomberg</a>.
The Senate, narrowly controlled by the Democrats, similarly <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/senate-rejects-biden-nominee-weil-dol-unit-chief-2022-03-31/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed to invoke cloture</a> on a Labor Department nominee in March 2022. Three Democrats joined with all Republicans to stop the advancement of David Weil&#8217;s nomination to become chief of the agency&#8217;s Wage and Hour Division. Weil <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/david-weil-withdraws-from-consideration-for-wage-hour-regulator" target="_blank" rel="noopener">withdrew</a> from consideration soon after.
Another Biden pick whose nomination has been <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/julie-sus-status-as-acting-labor-secretary-is-legal-gao-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tied up in the upper chamber</a> is Julie Su, a deputy who has been working as acting secretary of labor following the departure of former chief Marty Walsh earlier this year.
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There have been a few instances in which Biden&#8217;s picks to help run other agencies over the past few years have dropped out or been withdrawn in the face of opposition in the Senate. They include National Highway Traffic Safety Administration nominee <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/31/biden-withdraws-ann-carlson-as-nominee-to-lead-us-auto-safety-agency-after-gop-pushes-back/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ann Carlson</a>, Federal Communications Commission nominee <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/03/07/1161708600/gigi-sohn-fcc-withdraw-nomination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gigi Sohn</a>, and Federal Aviation Administration nominee <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/us/politics/faa-nominee-withdraws-phillip-washington.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phillip Washington</a>.
In addition, there is Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) months-long “hold” on the Senate’s ability to quickly approve U.S. military nominees in protest against a Pentagon abortion policy.
The majority leader, Schumer, announced in a recent <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/dear_colleague_112623.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Dear Colleague&#8221;</a> letter that he plans to have the Senate consider a resolution passed by the Rules Committee to end the standoff that has impacted <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3573660/pentagon-official-underscores-impact-of-senate-hold-on-dod-nominees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hundreds</a> of general and flag officer nominations. After which, Tuberville told POLITICO that lawmakers may be close to reaching <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/11/29/congress/tuberville-weighs-releasing-some-holds-00129065" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;some kind of resolution.&#8221;</a>
Schumer also said in his letter that this week, &#8220;the Senate will continue working to confirm President Biden’s diverse and experienced nominees and add more of those nominees to the federal bench.&#8221;

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV)

Democrat-Led Senate Rejects Another Biden Labor Nominee

Joe Manchin

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mitch-mcconnell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mitch McConnell</a> (R-KY) said Democrats appear to be espousing &#8220;cynical, short-sided politics&#8221; in a feud over addressing the southern <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border crisis</a>.
In Senate floor remarks on Monday, McConnell delivered a retort of sorts to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> Majority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY) after the New York Democrat issued a warning to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mike-johnson-israel-ukraine-immigration-gop-agenda-e4054f12f83cfaa09044aa3d087396a8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republicans</a> who hope to link national security funds to U.S. border security reforms.
&#8220;Unfortunately, Senate Democrats have already suggested they want to condition urgent resources for one of our top security priorities on not addressing another one,&#8221; <a href="https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=3F6F54EC-DE8D-45CF-A37E-18C8C674E862" target="_blank" rel="noopener">McConnell said</a>. &#8220;Apparently, our colleagues are considering putting support for Israel on the chopping block unless we promise not to fix the border crisis they helped create.&#8221;
McConnell added that &#8220;this sort of cynical, short-sighted politics has denied the American people real border security too many times&#8221; and emphasized that he believes the &#8220;challenges facing America are connected. And the time to address them — each of them — is now.&#8221;
After rejecting a House bill to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-gop-proposes-israel-aid-offset-by-irs-budget-cuts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offset $14.3 billion</a> in aid for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel</a> in its war with Hamas by slashing the same amount of funds meant for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/internal-revenue-service-irs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internal Revenue Service (IRS)</a>, Schumer <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/dear_colleague_112623.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Sunday that he aims to have the Senate consider President Joe Biden&#8217;s request for <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/whats-bidens-106-billion-supplemental-funding-request-2023-10-20/#:~:text=Oct%2020(Reuters)%20%2D%20U.S.,Indo%2DPacific%20and%20border%20enforcement." target="_blank" rel="noopener">roughly $106 billion</a> in <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/20/fact-sheet-white-house-calls-on-congress-to-advance-critical-national-security-priorities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">funds for Israel, Ukraine</a>, Taiwan, border security, and more &#8220;as soon as the week of December 4th.&#8221;
The &#8220;biggest holdup&#8221; to the supplemental national security package, Schumer argued, is the &#8220;insistence&#8221; by <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mike-johnson-israel-ukraine-immigration-gop-agenda-e4054f12f83cfaa09044aa3d087396a8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republicans</a> to link aid to Ukraine, which is fighting against Russian invaders, to &#8220;partisan&#8221; U.S. border security policy.
&#8220;This has injected a decades old, hyper-partisan issue into overwhelmingly bipartisan priorities,&#8221; Schumer said. &#8220;Democrats stand ready to work on common-sense solutions to address immigration, but purely partisan hard-right demands, like those in H.R. 2, jeopardize the entire national security supplemental package.&#8221;
In the House, Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) has signaled openness to funding national security concerns raised by the Biden administration, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-denies-zelensky-opportunity-to-address-joint-session-of-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more money</a> for the Ukraine defense effort, as long as <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4329407-speaker-johnson-says-hes-confident-ukraine-israel-aid-will-pass-house/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border security is also addressed</a>.
Meanwhile, Senate Republicans <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/senate-republicans-unveil-solutions-for-southern-border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have said</a> they are drawing elements from H.R. 2, which the GOP-led House <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/dear_colleague_112623.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed earlier this year</a>, to develop a proposal that includes bumping up pay for border agents, resuming <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/senate_republican_working_group_one_pager.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">construction of a border wall</a>, asylum reform, and parole reform.
McConnell thanked his GOP colleagues for their efforts and touted how Senate Republicans &#8220;have been laser-focused on actually fixing our broken asylum process, not just pouring more money into a system that’s simply not working.&#8221;
&#8220;Our Democratic colleagues would do well to take these efforts seriously,&#8221; McConnell said. “The bottom line is simple: We don’t have the luxury of addressing glaring threats to our national security one at a time. Crises don’t solve themselves just because Washington can’t muster the political will to address them.&#8221;

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McConnell Rips Dems For Refusal To Link 'Real Border Security' To Other Challenges

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