{"id":31563,"date":"2024-02-07T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T21:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=31563"},"modified":"2024-02-07T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T21:18:11","slug":"biden-would-veto-standalone-israel-aid-bill-backed-by-gop-says-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/02\/07\/biden-would-veto-standalone-israel-aid-bill-backed-by-gop-says-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Would Veto Standalone Israel Aid Bill Backed by GOP, Says White House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Guardian UK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"BidenPresident Joe Biden. (photo: Patrick Semansky\/AP)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

06 february 24<\/strong> (RSN.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ALSO SEE: <\/strong>As Conservatives Balk, US Border Patrol Union Endorses Senate Immigration Deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Administration backs broader bill providing funds to Ukraine, Israel and US border as it tells Congress to reject \u2018this political ploy\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Joe Biden\u2019s administration said on Monday he would veto a standalone bill backed by House Republicans that would provide aid to Israel, as it backs a broader bill giving assistance to Ukraine and Israel and new funds for border security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe administration strongly encourages both chambers of the Congress to reject this political ploy and instead quickly send the bipartisan Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act to the president\u2019s desk,\u201d the Office of Management and Budget said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials from the Democratic president\u2019s administration have been working for months with Senate Democrats and Republicans on a $118bn legislation<\/a> package revealed on Sunday combining billions of dollars in emergency aid for Ukraine, Israel and partners in the Indo-Pacific region, with an overhaul of US immigration policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill includes $60bn in aid to Ukraine, $14.1bn for Israel in its war in Gaza, and about $20bn for new enforcement efforts along the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republican House leaders said days before its release on Sunday night that they would reject the bipartisan Senate bill, and instead vote on a bill providing aid only to Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill represented a rightward tilt in Senate negotiations over border measures, yet the backlash was intense from conservatives. They savaged the border policy proposal as insufficient, with Donald Trump leading the charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a gift to the Democrats. And this sort of is a shifting of the worst border in history onto the shoulders of Republicans,\u201d the former president and likely Republican presidential nominee said Monday on The Dan Bongino Show. \u201cThat\u2019s really what they want. They want this for the presidential election so they can now blame the Republicans for the worst border in history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many Senate Republicans \u2013 even those who have expressed support for Ukraine aid and the contours of the border policy changes \u2013 raised doubts Monday they would support the package. A private Republican meeting was scheduled in the evening to discuss it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer moved toward a key test vote<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe actions here in the next few days are an inflection point in history,\u201d the New York Democrat said in a floor speech Monday afternoon. \u201cThe security of our nation and of the world hangs in the balance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schumer worked closely with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on the border security package after the Kentucky Republican had insisted on the pairing as a way to win support for Ukraine aid<\/a>. The Democratic leader urged his colleagues across the aisle to \u201ctune out the political noise\u201d and vote yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor years, years our Republican colleagues have demanded we fix the border. And all along they said it should be done through legislation. Only recently did they change that when it looks like we might actually produce legislation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Schumer and McConnell have emphasized for months the urgency of approving tens of billions of dollars<\/a> for Ukraine\u2019s fight, saying that the US\u2019s ability to buttress democracies around the world was at stake. Yet with the funding stuck in Congress, the defense department has halted shipments of ammunition and missiles to Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Republican-majority House passed an Israel-only bill<\/a> in November, but it was never taken up in the Democratic-led Senate, as members worked on Biden\u2019s request for Congress to approve the broader emergency security package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement from House speaker Mike Johnson and representatives Steve Scalise, Tom Emmer and Elise Stefanik pointed to a provision in the bill that would grant work authorizations to people who qualify to enter the asylum system. They also argued that it would endorse a \u201ccatch and release\u201d policy by placing people who enter the asylum system in a monitoring program while they await the final decision on their asylum claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the proposal, people who seek asylum, which provides protection for people facing persecution in their home countries, would face a tougher and faster process to having their claim evaluated. The standard in initial interviews would be raised, and many would receive those interviews within days of arriving at the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final decisions on their asylum claims would happen within months, rather than the often years-long wait that happens now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the House Republican leaders said: \u201cAny consideration of this Senate bill in its current form is a waste of time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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