Trump rails against Senate foreign aid bill, says US should ‘give it to ’em as a loan’ instead

Former President Trump slammed the Senate foreign aid bill at a rally in South Carolina on Saturday.

Trump: “They want to give almost $100 billion to several countries” Said At a gathering.

He continued: “I said, ‘Why are we doing this? If you do that, you’re not giving them $100 billion, you’re giving it “as a loan.” ”

The Senate voted Friday to move forward with passing a $95.3 billion package that includes funding for Ukraine and Israel. The policy comes after the failure of a recent bipartisan deal that combined foreign aid and border security reform.

President Trump’s strong opposition to the deal, which combined foreign aid and border security reform, contributed to the failure. He called the song a “death wish” for the party shortly after its release.

“Only an idiot or a radical leftist Democrat would vote for this horrible border bill that would give us closure powers only if we encounter 5,000 encounters a day, when we already have the right to close our borders right now. , we must,” President Trump wrote. In real social.

“This bill is a great gift to Democrats and a death wish to Republicans. It takes the terrible job Democrats have done on immigration and the border, pardons them, and puts everything squarely on the shoulders of Republicans.” It’s a thing,” Trump continued.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) also pursued the bill.

“We’ve seen enough. This bill is even worse than we expected and will be far from ending the border disaster the president has wrought.” As the Democratic chief negotiator declared: Under this bill, ‘borders will never close’,” Mr Johnson wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

“If this bill reaches the House, it will be dead on arrival,” he added.