In an interview with Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, urged Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to use leverage to ensure border security.
Mr. Vance voiced strong opposition to the Republican-controlled House passing a new foreign aid bill without including border security measures. Mr. Vance, noting the expected consideration of the foreign aid bill, urged Mr. Johnson not to pursue policies that would bypass the U.S. southern border and send billions of dollars to Ukraine.
“I think Chairman Johnson is a good person, but if he brought out a foreign aid package that would send billions of dollars to Ukraine without doing anything on the southern border, that would be an embarrassment, not just to Republican voters, and a big It would be a betrayal on a grand scale,’ but of the entire country,” Vance said in an interview on Fox News. “Why do people choose the Republican Party when they are more focused on other countries’ borders than their own?”
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“Speaker Johnson has shown real steely resolve here, pushing back against the madness and telling the Biden administration that he won’t put a penny on foreign priorities until he does his job and secures our borders. “There are,” the senator continued. (Related: House Republicans threaten ‘shutdown’ if border security not included in government funding compromise)
Vance noted that President Trump’s solid policies on immigration and border control are essential to long-term solutions, and that the Republican Party’s strategic priority is to ensure Donald Trump’s return to the presidency in 2024. suggested that it should be.
“This shows the need for President Trump’s Round 2.0. We know the Biden administration has opened the floodgates here. They have rolled back many of the Trump-era immigration policies and we are seeing the effects of that. “I’ve done that,” Vance said. “But I don’t want to give Congressional Republicans a free hand here, because we have real influence. We just need to be willing to use it.”
The controversy stems from a $95 billion foreign aid bill passed by the Senate in February that aimed to increase aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as previously reported. However, it does not include border security measures that many Republicans have advocated. according to To The Hill.
