{"id":2083936,"date":"2023-10-30T12:43:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T16:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-aligned-group-comes-out-against-biden-106-billion-foreign-aid-bill\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T12:49:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T16:49:58","slug":"trump-aligned-group-comes-out-against-biden-106-billion-foreign-aid-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-aligned-group-comes-out-against-biden-106-billion-foreign-aid-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-aligned group opposes Biden&#8217;s $106B foreign aid bill."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-aligned-group-comes-out-against-biden-106-billion-foreign-aid-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2083936&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>America First Policy Institute Opposes Biden&#8217;s Foreign Aid Supplemental<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>A nonprofit think \u2062tank founded by former President\u200c Donald \u200cTrump&#8217;s allies has come out against President Joe Biden&#8217;s $106 billion foreign aid supplemental, citing opposition to linking\u200c funding for Ukraine along with assistance for\u200c Israel in its battle against the terrorist group Hamas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The America First Policy Institute,\u200d made up of dozens\u200b of former Trump White House officials, including President Brooke Rollins, Trump\u2019s \u2062former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/neera-tanden-to-replace-susan-rice-as-bidens-domestic-policy-chief\/\" title=\"Neera Tanden to take over as Biden's domestic policy chief, replacing Susan Rice.\">domestic policy chief<\/a>, opposed Biden&#8217;s request on Monday and claimed that since Ukraine&#8217;s war with Russia is now 600 days old, it is &#8220;not an emergency,&#8221; and \u200ctherefore, the $61.4 billion in Ukraine funding should be separate from Biden&#8217;s\u200c supplemental.<\/p>\n<h3>Court Challenges to Keep Trump off 2024 Election Ballots Begin in Two States<\/h3>\n<p>The group also protested Biden&#8217;s request for $14 billion for border security included in the supplemental, arguing for decreasing illegal immigration in the United States instead of\u2064 the president&#8217;s &#8220;failed policy&#8221; of handling immigrants at the southern border.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThrowing more \u200bmoney at the \u2062border is not the answer,\u201d<\/strong> Chad Wolf, executive director of the America First Policy Institute and former acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, \u2063the group criticized Biden&#8217;s supplemental for ignoring the\u200b House-passed Secure the Border Act, which resumes construction of a border wall, increases Border Patrol agents, and criminalizes visa overstays.<\/p>\n<p>This stance mirrors Trump&#8217;s \u200dprevious comments about the war\u2064 in the Middle East. In multiple campaign rallies since the Oct. 7 battle between Israel and Hamas began, Trump has claimed he will reinstate \u2064his 2017 travel ban, which \u2062targeted \u200bimmigrants from Muslim-majority countries.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Biden canceled my travel ban on terror-plagued nations.\u200b He threw open our borders, surrendered to the Taliban,&#8221; Trump\u200b slammed Biden during a campaign stop in Derry, New Hampshire, \u200dlast week. &#8220;This\u2063 is the sickness and depravity that Joe Biden and his\u2064 open borders maniacs want to bring to America, and we will not let them do \u200dit.\u200b We&#8217;re gonna close it\u200d up and &#8230; if you \u200dwant to come into the country, you can, but you have to come in legally.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump also claimed that members of Hamas, which \u200claunched a surprise attack on Israel that killed more than \u20631,400 people, could\u2063 be attempting to enter the U.S. through the southern border.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-aligned-group-comes-out-against-biden-106-billion-foreign-aid-bill\/\" title=\"Trump-aligned group opposes Biden's 6B foreign aid bill.\">implement strong ideological screening<\/a> of all immigrants,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;If you hate America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you don&#8217;t like our \u200creligion, which \u200ba lot of them\u200d don&#8217;t, if you sympathize\u200c with jihadists, then we don&#8217;t want you in our country, and you are not getting in.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>America First Policy \u200dInstitute also slammed other \u2064spending proposals \u2063calling for a match in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-pelosis-new-house-rules-package-silences-the-voice-of-republican-minority\/\" title=\"Speaker Pelosi\u2019s new House rules package silences the voice of Republican minority\">spending cuts<\/a> \u2062from Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck \u2064Schumer (D-NY).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;America does not have a revenue problem, it has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-biggs-warns-of-swelling-national-debt-as-democrats-push-2t-in-covid-relief\/\" title=\"Rep. Biggs warns of swelling national debt as Democrats push T in COVID relief\">spending problem<\/a>,\u201d Michael Faulkender, chief economist\u2062 of the group and former assistant secretary \u200bfor economic policy\u200c at the\u200c Treasury Department, said in a statement. \u201cSimply by eliminating Joe Biden\u2019s wasteful radical left spending on things we don\u2019t need, our \u200dcountry can redirect that money \u200cto our friends, allies, and the issues that matter most to the \u200csecurity of the American people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The group pointed to rescinding nearly $22 billion in federal \u200dand state subsidies and regulatory credits related to producing electric\u2064 vehicles as one tactic in offsetting the non-Ukraine supplemental requests from Biden.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What is the America First Policy Institute&#8217;s objection to linking funding for \u200cUkraine and assistance for Israel in the fight against Hamas?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  H3>Opposition to Linking Funding for Ukraine and Israel<\/h3>\n<p>The America\u2064 First Policy Institute\u2019s opposition to President Biden\u2019s foreign aid supplemental stems from its objection \u2063to linking funding for Ukraine and assistance for \u200dIsrael in its battle against\u2064 Hamas. The institute argues that the 600-day-long war between\u200c Ukraine \u200cand Russia\u2062 is no longer an emergency and,\u2064 therefore, the funding\u200d for Ukraine should be separate\u2062 from \u200dthe overall supplemental package.<\/p>\n<p>President Brooke Rollins,\u2063 a former domestic policy\u200d chief under\u2063 President Trump, \u2062stated the \u200dinstitute\u2019s position on\u200d Monday,\u200d affirming that the $61.4 billion funding allocated for Ukraine should be disassociated from President\u200b Biden\u2019s request. The America First \u2064Policy Institute, comprised of several former Trump White House officials, including Rollins,\u200c opposes the conflation of \u2062these two issues and prioritizes the fair\u200d allocation of resources.<\/p>\n<h3>Protest Against\u200d Border \u2064Security \u200cFunding<\/h3>\n<p>In addition to its opposition to\u2063 linking Ukraine and Israel funding, the America First Policy Institute also expressed its protest against\u2064 President\u2062 Biden\u2019s request \u200dfor $14 billion in border security funding \u200bincluded in the supplemental. The institute argues for a different approach\u2063 to dealing with immigration issues, one that\u200c focuses on decreasing illegal immigration\u200b rather than \u200ccontinuing the current handling of border policies.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Wolf, the executive director\u200d of the America First Policy \u2064Institute and a former acting secretary \u2063of the Department of Homeland Security, emphasized that allocating more money to the border is not the solution. The institute\u2019s stance\u2063 criticizes \u2062the Biden \u200cadministration for overlooking the House-passed Secure\u200c the Border Act, which not only resumes the construction of a border wall but also increases the number of Border Patrol \u2062agents and provides consequences for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-marshall-raises-alarm-over-surge-of-chinese-nationals-crossing-southern-border\/\" title=\"Senator Marshall expresses concern about the increasing number of Chinese nationals crossing the southern border.\">visa \u200boverstays<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Parallels with Trump\u2019s Prior Stance on the Middle East<\/h3>\n<p>It is worth noting that the America First Policy Institute\u2019s opposition to the foreign aid supplemental and its focus on\u200c immigration concerns echo former President Trump\u2019s previous comments\u2062 and policies regarding the Middle East. Trump \u200bhas repeatedly expressed \u200bhis\u2062 intention to reinstate the travel ban he\u200d implemented in\u2062 2017, which targeted immigrants from Muslim-majority \u200ccountries. This aligns with the institute\u2019s emphasis on border security and its criticism of President Biden\u2019s \u200bhandling\u200b of immigrants at \u2063the southern\u2062 border.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200cconclusion, \u200cthe \u2062America First Policy Institute, founded by former President Trump\u2019s allies, \u200bopposes President Biden\u2019s foreign aid supplemental due to its objection to linking funding for Ukraine and\u2064 Israel in\u2063 the fight against Hamas.\u200b The institute also criticizes the supplemental for its approach to\u200c border security and immigration, advocating for a different strategy to address\u2062 these issues. This opposition and criticism are consistent with \u2064the institute\u2019s alignment with\u2062 Trump\u2019s previous stances on these matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>allies, opposes President Biden&#8217;s $106B foreign aid package. They object to combining Ukraine funding with aid for Israel&#8217;s fight against Hamas. 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