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Posted By: Dreadnought, 12/6/2023 8:09:09 PM

Senate Republicans blocked a $111 billion foreign-aid package for Ukraine’s and Israel’s respective wars after failing to reach a deal with Democrats on border security. The upper chamber on Wednesday voted 49–51, failing to pass the 60-vote threshold that would have advanced the combined aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan to the floor. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and the White House both called for a vote on the package. At the end of the floor proceeding, Schumer voted no in order to bring up the spending bill again at a later date. “Tonight is a sad night in the history of the Senate and in our country.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: scottj 12/6/2023 8:22:10 PM (No. 1612060)
Good!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 12/6/2023 8:28:26 PM (No. 1612062)
Those "petty" Republicans, again. Didn't the FBI Director state just yesterday that terrorists are taking advantage of our southern border?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: OhioNick 12/6/2023 8:36:13 PM (No. 1612067)
All day long on ABC radio news, I keep hearing an angry Joe Biden telling me that the Republicans are blocking the bill over their "extremist" demands concerning the border. Yes, having a functioning well-guarded border is considered extremist if you're a Democrat. Additionally, ABC followed Joe's comment with the lie that Republicans want to pass new border legislation. No, the Republicans simply want the existing federal laws to be enforced.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Venturer 12/6/2023 8:38:07 PM (No. 1612069)
I guess it's a matter of opinion about it being a sad day. The problem at the border HAS to be taken care of. Why do democrat believe it is all right for just anyone to walk across our border?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Dipi 12/6/2023 9:49:11 PM (No. 1612091)
Good for them! We should take care of our own before trying to fix others.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: earlybird 12/6/2023 10:43:58 PM (No. 1612104)
YES!!!!!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: pixelero 12/6/2023 10:48:35 PM (No. 1612105)
…3 …2 …1 …until this herd of Republican cats scatters again. The democrats are evil but they sure are united. And consistent. What astounds me is how many wrongheaded ideas they’re consistent ABOUT. The conservatives have everything good on their side but can’t make the case. Maybe it’s because people have become too stupid to tell right from wrong.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Trigger2 12/7/2023 12:51:53 AM (No. 1612120)
Keep blocking all Ukraine and Israel money until demonrats finally see the light on illegal immigration.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: mifla 12/7/2023 4:54:56 AM (No. 1612156)
Zelensky is on the phone with Joe reminding him that he has enough on Hunter to have him shot.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Alecto2 12/7/2023 7:17:31 AM (No. 1612216)
I agree with your sentiment #5 but you sentence should have been "Good for them! We should take care of our own." And that's all.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Rama41 12/7/2023 8:11:10 AM (No. 1612261)
How refreshing for the Republican Senate finally to take a stand on the border. Let's hope it lasts more than a day or two.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: privateer 12/7/2023 8:23:30 AM (No. 1612269)
The border needs to be wide open. That is how the Commiecrats will usher in their demonic version of Utopia. By pumping the 3rd World cesspool into the true American reservoir, they will guarantee the creation of their dream empire: masses of lower IQ, ignorant, docile, and dependent parasites to people their nation-wide system of feudal baronies. It will be like France's Ancien Regime. They will be the royalty and aristocracy, controlling a vast nation of serfs, who work their lands, pay tribute, and don't step out of line. They forget that the Moonatics have no intention of being docile, or underlings.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: udanja99 12/7/2023 8:55:02 AM (No. 1612303)
Close but still not good enough. We need to keep funding Israel, cut Zelensky off at the knees and secure the border. #9 nailed it - our funding of Ukraine is nothing more than Xiden being blackmailed and covering his and Hunter’s arses.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: southernboy 12/7/2023 9:52:46 AM (No. 1612372)
The fools in Washington think worker bees who will vote Democrat are the ones invading our country. Truth is, they were rabble in their home country and they are rabble here. They will rob and steal same as they always have. Become government wards as long as government will allow them to be and riot in the streets when and if the largess runs out. Just wait until the Elite discover their lifestyles cannot be maintained solely by their support staff!
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Zigrid 12/7/2023 11:20:04 AM (No. 1612480)
Ditto..poster #1...
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Penney 12/7/2023 1:11:11 PM (No. 1612559)
Where exactly is securing the USA on Biden's Oath of Office list?!
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Ashley Brenton 12/7/2023 6:12:04 PM (No. 1612693)
I was born in 1973. So my knowledge of Vietnam comes through reading. What I read was that in the endgame, all South Vietnam needed from America was logistical support. That support was killed by the Democrats, who had Nixon on the ropes over Watergate. So Hanoi won. Here we are, all this time later, and it is Republicans--my party--who are behaving like the Democrats of 1976. Putin and Russia cannot be allowed to win. And 80% of what we've spent on Ukraine is spent here, in America, in our factories. And if you want to end illegal immigration in America you don't need a wall. All you have to do is sentence anyone who hires an illegal 5 years in prison. Isn't that easier than a wall?
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Omen55 12/7/2023 7:20:15 PM (No. 1612733)
Joey lose Mittens on this so that says a lot.
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