Congress should vote separately, but rapidly, on Israel, Ukraine, and the border

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Congress should vote separately, but rapidly, on Israel, Ukraine, and the border
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Quin Hillyer is the deputy commentary editor for the Washington Examiner. He is a former executive editor for the American Spectator and has served in senior roles for the Washington Times, the Mobile Register, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and Gambit New Orleans Weekly and has been published in almost every major newspaper in the nation.

There is no good, substantive reason for the Senate to insist on bundling aid to Israel with aid to Ukraine and with Mexican border security. Then again, there is no excuse for House Speaker Mike Johnson to avoid giving Ukrainian aid a prompt, fair vote on the House floor.CHINA’S IMPERIALISM IN SEA LANES REQUIRES STRONGER REACTION

If a big-ticket item can’t get majority support in both chambers of Congress, it shouldn’t pass. But one that does enjoy majority support absolutely should pass, rather than fail because something else less popular is appended to it. Procedural problems aside, there is an ethical imperative to bring to a vote each of the three issues of border security, aid to Ukraine, and aid to Israel. On the latter two, only people with severely skewed moral compasses would disagree that Ukraine and Israel both are victims of heinous and unprovoked atrocities and that each’s defense is a righteous cause. The only questions are whether those righteous causes merit material support from the United States, and if so, how much.

Likewise, with cartel-smuggled fentanyl pouring across the Mexican border , and with a humanitarian crisis of women and children who illegally cross the border only to find no decent housing facilities here, it would be dreadful to keep legislative majorities from a fair, stand-alone vote on how to strengthen border security, without regard to decisions on Ukraine or Israel.

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