The disaster on the U.S. southern border is now being carefully linked to Congress passing annual spending payments.
Congress has till Saturday to go the 12 authorities spending payments for fiscal yr 2024, or a short-term funding invoice, so as to keep away from a authorities shutdown, however some Republican lawmakers say they received’t assist funding the federal government with out measures to safe America’s southern border.
“From the start of this course of, I’ve vowed to defend the 750,000 Texans I symbolize by refusing to fund a [Department of Homeland Security] that isn’t doing its job to safe the border,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, instructed Fox Information Digital.
“If the Senate and the president proceed open-border insurance policies, then the Home won’t transfer a DHS appropriations invoice,” Roy stated. “Texans are executed. We’re over it. It doesn’t matter what occurs earlier than that is throughout, border safety must get executed, interval, full cease. No safety, no funding.”
In a letter to his colleagues on Aug. 10, Roy and 14 of his fellow GOP legislators referred to as on different lawmakers to withhold funding from DHS till laws is handed to safe the border.
The Home Freedom Caucus, comprising about 45 of the extra conservative Republican members of the Home, additionally issued a letter in August stating that it might oppose any spending measure that doesn’t embrace a invoice the Home already handed referred to as the Safe the Border Act of 2023, which might institute quite a lot of border safety measures, together with resuming development on the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Republicans are digging of their heels and utilizing the ability of the purse to demand border safety as Customs and Border Safety reported 304,162 unlawful aliens have been encountered within the month of August, surpassing the earlier document excessive in December 2022 by practically 2,000.
The present surge of unlawful aliens has overwhelmed the border city of Eagle Cross, Texas—a metropolis of about 30,000 about 140 miles southwest of San Antonio—the place the Democratic mayor has declared a state of emergency.
Over the weekend, Fox Information’ Griff Jenkins reported that greater than 4,000 unlawful aliens crossed the border into Eagle Cross between Friday and Sunday. And in accordance with his CBP sources, Jenkins stated Monday that there “have been roughly 11,000 migrant encounters on the [southwest] border within the final 24 hours, marking the ‘single-highest day in latest reminiscence.’”
In response to the surge, entrepreneur and tech large Elon Musk wrote on X, previously Twitter, that he’ll go to Eagle Cross “to see what’s occurring for myself.”
Musk’s put up has been seen greater than 900,000 occasions. His go to to the southern border is probably going to attract the eye of a variety of the American public, a lot of whom won’t in any other case be following the present border disaster.
It’s too quickly to know, however Musk’s journey to Eagle Cross would possibly give conservatives in Congress extra public assist and leverage to demand passage of border safety laws alongside federal spending payments.
On this week’s version of the “Problematic Ladies” podcast, we clarify how probably a authorities shutdown is and Musk’s forthcoming go to to the southern border.
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