Heritage Action Urges Rejection of Border Pact and Foreign Aid

Heritage Action, the advocacy arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, urged lawmakers to reject a national security supplement package.

According to The Hill, a procedural vote on the proposed legislation was expected in the Senate on Wednesday. The bill includes a bipartisan border agreement and foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel, among other foreign policy priorities.

“The Biden administration’s ’emergency’ supplemental funding request for billions in deficit-financed spending is a disingenuous effort to conflate and leverage popular support for Israel and false promises of border security for continued spending on the conflict in Ukraine and an open southern border,” Heritage Action said, according to The Hill.

“With the exception of replenishing defense capabilities for our ally Israel following the deadly terrorist attack by Hamas — a genuinely time-sensitive and unforeseen crisis — all other priorities in this supplemental were fully known at the start of the current appropriations cycle.

“Rather than budgeting for these stated ‘priorities’ by eliminating less important federal programs, this supplemental attempts to use the legitimate ’emergency’ designation for the war in Israel to dodge responsible budgeting for the [Joe] Biden-designed crisis at the southern border and sending billions more of unaccountable taxpayer dollars into Ukraine.”

The Senate’s bill is a “dumpster fire” that will worsen the situation at the border, Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., said Tuesday onNewsmax.

“What we’re all supposed to be working toward, Democrats and Republicans, liberals, conservatives and everything in between, is solving the problem at the border, not making it worse,” Perry said on “Wake Up America.” “Enshrining in law the fact that we’re not only allowing, but inviting almost 2 million people a year to come across the border illegally before we do anything, that’s not solving the problem.”