House Speaker Kevin McCarthy led GOP legislators to block a Democratic push to import many wage-cutting migrant workers in a Thursday vote.
29 Sep 2023 Nearly all GOP legislators voted Thursday afternoon to block a massive inflow of wage-cutting migrant workers and to stop another $300 million giveaway to Ukraine. All Democrats voted for the amendment that would give away American jobs to foreigners who get H-2B and H-2A visas, and also to spend another $300 million for Ukraine’s war with Russia.
He is trying to keep the GOP caucus united while passing agency funding bills for spending in 2024, which starts on October 1. The amendment vote was part of the run-up to the vote on the budget for the Department of Homeland Security , which took place late Thursday night. File/Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., conducts a news conference in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. For months, the DHS bill has been delayed by GOP splits over the Ukraine war and disagreements over President Joe Biden’s open-border policies. It has also been divided by McCarthy’s effort to bypass regular debates by stuffing Congress’ 12 spending bills into a huge “Continuing Resolution.” But McCarthy kept the party’s populist and business factions together and late Thursday, he passed a DHS spending bill with 220 voters against the Democrats’ 208 nays. His DHS bill includes careful policy changes — not just showy budget cuts — that block Biden’s deputies from welcoming, transporting, and housing millions of job-seeking, wage-cutting migrants for jobs that would otherwise go to better-paid Americans.The DHS funding bill includes $91.515 billion in total discretionary spending for the department. The money includes more than $2 billion to build a wall along the southern border, $496 million for 22,000 Border Patrol agents, and upwards of $3.55 billion for custody operations. Republicans say the bill will provide millions in savings by rejecting funds for electric vehicles and DHS Headquarters consolidation, as well as rejecting Biden administration funding requests for emergency food and shelter for migrants, among other measures. However, these provisions do not become law until the House and the Democrat-run Senate agree on a common bill, and Biden signs the shared bill. Biden and the Democrats in the Senate — plus some GOP Senators — are likely to fight many of the House’s beneficial provisions. Biden recently asked for another $3.3 billion to help bring more migrants into Americans’ cities, workplaces, and neighborhoods — in addition to the billions approved in late 2022 by the then-Democratic majority in the House.to the Democrats’ policy of importing migrant workers, renters, and consumers. Biden’s border policies have resulted in 2.6 million illegal immigrants being released into the US. Another 1.7 million known got-aways illegally entered as well. In the last 34 months Democrats have admitted two new states into the country the size of West Virginia & New Mexico.
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