Senators on Sunday released a highly anticipated $118 billion package that pairs border enforcement policy with wartime aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, setting off a long-shot effort to push the bill through heavy skepticism from Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson.

The proposal is the best chance for President Joe Biden to resupply Ukraine with wartime aid — a major foreign policy goal that is shared with both the Senate’s top Democrat, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and top Republican, Sen. Mitch McConnell. The Senate was expected this week to hold a key test vote on the legislation, but it faces a wall of opposition from conservatives.

With Congress stalled on approving $60 billion in Ukraine aid, the U.S. has halted shipments of ammunition and missiles to Kyiv, leaving Ukrainian soldiers outgunned as they try to beat back Russia’s invasion.

The new bill would also invest in U.S. defense manufacturing, send $14 billion in military aid to Israel, steer nearly $5 billion to allies in the Asia-Pacific, and provide humanitarian assistance to civilians caught in conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.

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    We should lower standards because we built them higher for them in the first place.

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      10 months ago

      The standards are the exact same for everyone around the world besides the cases I mentioned before. No need to lower them because people in Latin America would rather subvert the laws of the country they want into rather than enter legally.

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          We built the fence at a height that ensures everyone who immigrates to the country earns it, through work, schooling, or other visas. People from Latin America immigrate to the US all the time, we shouldn’t lower the standards because some people cannot meet them, that’s the point of standards.

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            10 months ago

            Funny how we suddenly care about good schooling when it’s brown people.

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              I care about good schooling for any race, if you can’t meet the standards, you don’t get to be an American.

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                I agree. Schooling is important. So we should probably kick states like Alabama and Mississippi out of the U.S on account of their poor schooling.

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        The standards are the exact same for everyone around the world besides the cases I mentioned before.

        Impressive how confidently you can say something that is entirely wrong.

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          From everything I have read, there isn’t a lower entry to visas for people coming from Europe compared to Latin America, with the only exceptions being Iraq and Afghanistan.