President Biden vowed on Monday to veto a House Republican bill that would provide $17.6 billion in aid to Israel, calling it a “cynical political maneuver” intended to hurt the chances of passage for broader legislation that would provide money for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan and the U.S. border.

House Republicans fiercely oppose the larger bill, which was unveiled by a small, bipartisan group of senators over the weekend. It calls for $118.3 billion in spending and would overhaul some of the nation’s immigration laws to deal with recent surges of migrants at the southern border.

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  • bhmnscmm@lemmy.world
    23·
    9 months ago

    I don’t disagree one bit. The Border™ gets trotted out more than it ought to every couple years. That’s probably why this issue will never be fixed–it’s great at riling people up.

    However, I think people should still be aware of the facts of the situation. At least if they actually care about the problem. Misinformation doesn’t fix anything.

    • Melkath@kbin.social
      215·
      9 months ago

      I also need to point out that you are sharing a .gov link and treating it like the bible.

      I find .gov citations to be some of the least reliable sources of information on the internet.

      America is OBSESSED with propaganda.

      • TheOriginalGregToo@lemmy.world
        12·
        9 months ago

        This right here confuses me. The people claiming that government numbers can’t be trusted are the same people who regularly rolled out government covid death numbers are the gospel truth during covid. My personal belief is that those numbers were wildly overblown, so I’m willing to believe that in this case you might be right and the migrant numbers are also overblown. That being said you can’t have it both ways. We’re the covid death numbers false?

        • Melkath@kbin.social
          12·
          9 months ago

          Brother, you caught a real one.

          I am very confused.

          I try to live my life mathematically. I cite sources that claim firm numbers frequently.

          We are in a fucky time.

          Everyone has the ability to capture unimpeachable figures, but everyone with a grasp on the raw data has a dude an inch over their shoulder saying “100 bucks if you fudge it.”

          We got strong in tech and the first thing we did as a digital world was fire the QA people and the auditors.

          Seems like a great way to faceplant the gift of computers.

          But what can you do?