An $118.3 billion Senate foreign aid and border security package does not include any funding for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the U.N. agency that employed 12 people accused by Israel of participating in the Oct. 7 attack on Israeli civilians. The legislation includes $10 billion in humanitarian assistance to...
Annie Lennox is taking to the Grammy Awards stage to call for a ceasefire in Gaza amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. The “Sweet Dreams” singer performed during an in memoriam segment at the 66th annual Grammys on Sunday in Los Angeles. In the final moments of her performance of Sinéad O'Connor’s “Nothing...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) slammed the Senate’s bipartisan border deal hours after the upper chamber released text of the long-awaited agreement, writing that it is “even worse than we expected” and declaring it “dead on arrival” in the House. “I’ve seen enough. This bill is even worse than we expected, and won’t come close to...
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) denounced the Senate’s bipartisan border security and foreign policy agreement on Sunday, claiming that the deal is nothing more than a retread of Trump administration policy. The package includes significant reforms for the asylum process, a presidential emergency declaration to shutter the border and other immigration changes in addition to foreign...
The long-awaited bipartisan border agreement met swift opposition from hardline conservatives and allies of former President Trump within hours of negotiators unveiling the 370-page package. They decried it as an “amnesty bill” that “erases our borders,” attacked the Ukraine funding that’s included, and called it “a complete sell-out, “awful” and “totally unacceptable.” “Let me be...
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) on Sunday declared that the Senate’s bipartisan border bill will not be taken up in the lower chamber after negotiators released their package after months of discussions. Scalise echoed past remarks by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), citing claims that the bill would allow 5,000 migrants per day — a...