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- The Senate is currently considering a $118 billion supplemental appropriations package that would address the U.S. border crisis, the war in Ukraine, conflicts in the Middle East, and more.
- After accounting for interest, the Senate supplemental spending package would cost roughly $1,200 per household.
- Pushing $118 billion in deficit spending when the nation is racing toward bankruptcy shows that too many in Washington are willing to mortgage the country’s future.
- Fortunately, it is not too late for legislators to do the right thing. They can reject the Senate’s fatally flawed proposal and use pending FY 2024 appropriations bills to put the flabby federal government on a diet.
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- Three Senators and President Biden secretly negotiated a border security bill that funds and facilitates more mass illegal immigration. It is a disaster for border security.
- If passed, the bill would again fund “sanctuary” jurisdictions and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that have been facilitating mass illegal immigration, using federal grants provided by these departments.
- The Biden administration’s destructive policies and violations of immigration law would also be written into statute. These measures would not only continue the border crisis but would also make it more difficult for a future enforcement-minded President to fix.
- Unacceptably, the bill:
- Accepts and codifies crisis levels of daily illegal immigration.
- Continues “catch and release” and guts the mandatory detention statute.
- Expands and codifies Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s mass parole abuse.
- Continues to encourage asylum fraud and accelerates work permits.
- When illegal aliens come to the U.S., they want to enter, remain, and work here—and that’s the best-case scenario. The border is just as open to terrorists, the Chinese, Russians, and any number of people who do not want to merely work here. Securing the border requires preventing those three things.
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- A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit has now decided an important issue “of first impression” and has denied former President Trump’s claim of executive immunity and double jeopardy.
- Most likely, the former president will file a petition for rehearing en banc, asking the full D.C. Circuit to reconsider the matter.
- If that fails, he is likely to ask the Supreme Court to consider the issue.
- Significantly, the D.C. Circuit referenced an argument that was raised by, among others, former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese arguing that Jack Smith’s appointment as Special Counsel violated the Appointments Clause.
- But the court stated that it was not considering the issue because it was not properly raised in the lower court.
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