The Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Homeland Security Committee on Monday night released legislative text for the $72 billion budget reconciliation bill that would bypass Democratic opposition to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol through 2029. The committees released the legislation after the Senate and House passed a joint budget resolution last month unlocking the special budget reconciliation process that will allow them to move funding for immigration enforcement without conceding to Democratic demands for reforms that have hung up the funding for months. The package will be able to pass the Senate with a simple-majority vote instead of needing 60 votes to advance.

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    Just remember, every time your insurance goes up, every time you see teachers stressed and struggling, every time you debate going to the doctor because of the cost.

    They said “we can’t afford it”.

    Remember who approves this, and vote their asses out. This isn’t a representative democracy, it’s been taken over by scam artists favoring their own interests.

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      The propaganda is fed to the moron base that the “illegals are taking all the Healthcare and welfare from the American citizens!” So they think spending all this absurd amount of money and effort getting them out, whilst killing Americans in the process and taking away all of the healthcare and welfare from Americans to pay for it is the right thing to do.

      MAGA aren’t smart and the pedophile tells them to their face indirectly all the time… it’s crazy.

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      Ask any random person in the US and you’ll get some variation of “I have a friend in Canada/UK (they don’t) and they said they have to wait 254 months to see a doctor! I don’t want that!”

      Or “I work hard, I don’t want more taxes just to pay for other lazy people to get free stuff!”

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      The best explanation for everything that’s happened in the last thirty years is that the powers that be in America “beat” communism in 1991 and have no reason to help the working class anymore.

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      Imagine you have a house with a fuck ton of annoying lights and you live in an HOA neighborhood. All your neighbors and the HOA have complained and threatened fines against you if you do not remove the lights. Literally all the people around you have asked, begged, and straight up demanded that you take down the lights. Buuuuuut… A foreign billionaire has offered you, personally, $200k a year to NOT take down the lights AND will cover any fines the HOA places on you AND hire you private security so that none of your neighbors can complain to you about the lights.

      What would you do? Would you make an effort to take down the lights? Why? You’d be losing money and it’s a lot easier to NOT do something than it is to do it. You might even agree that the area would be better without the lights, but again, why would you bother? You have every incentive to not fix the problem, and zero incentive to replace it.

      Thats why. Americans may demand healthcare, but that’s worthless. Our government officials no longer respond to, or care about, our demands. They don’t even pretend to anymore.

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      Probably lots of reasons. At least one of which is that too many don’t want to pay for services for people who “don’t deserve it”.
      Another is a religion-based idea that helping people is bad for them because they won’t work without ‘motivation’

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          About 60% of conservatives don’t want it and they’ve been able to stop progress since Lieberman killed the public option in Obamacare. There’s also the issue that while 90% of more liberal Americans want some form of federal assistance, pharma and health insurance lobbies Dem representatives very hard.

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          Yes but plenty of things do when there’s no active push against it via the propaganda networks. For example environmentalism, rail expansion, and green energy generally have a solid bit of Republican support especially in rural areas so long as there’s isn’t any active war drumming against them.