Border security bill fails to lift U.S. House conservatives' block of foreign aid package

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Nebraska Examiner

By: Ariana Figueroa - April 18, 2024 10:26 pm

WASHINGTON — The border security bill U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson offered to conservatives to win support for a major foreign aid package had not broken a blockade of the package by hard-right members late Thursday.

The border security bill is nearly identical to a border security bill, H.R. 2, the House passed last year on a party-line vote that would reinstate Trump-era immigration policies. Including a border security bill was Johnson’s attempt to appease hard-right Republicans and win support for the foreign aid package many on his right flank oppose.

But as the U.S. House Rules Committee gathered for hours over two separate meetings Wednesday evening and Thursday to discuss the border security bill and the three separate bills totaling about $95 billion to aid Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific region, the panel had not adopted a rule that would allow the bills to receive floor consideration.

The new border security bill includes most provisions from H.R. 2 and would add more than $9 billion in grant programs for border states. It does not include a mandate for employers to verify a worker’s immigration status and employment eligibility.


South Carolina Republican Rep. Ralph Norman, left, listens as Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy discusses a border security bill at a U.S. House Rules hearing April 18, 2024. (Screenshot from committee livestream).


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[Ray Bruns]

1. Poor Mike. He still doesn't get it.

No matter what he does, the crazies are going to be mad. He needs to work with democrats and ignore them.