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The Duran Podcast

Biden challenges Texas, seeks to unlock Ukraine funds

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4.4650 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Biden challenges Texas, seeks to unlock Ukraine funds

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0:00.0

All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is happening in Texas and the standoff between Governor Abbott, Texas, and the Biden White House.

0:12.1

And Governor Abbott, he made his rounds on media yesterday, and he said, look, he's not backing down. not backing down. He said Texas is going to hold the line.

0:24.2

They're going to continue to protect the border, continue to place the bobwire on the border.

0:33.5

And the Biden White House, they gave Texas 24 hours to not continue to fortify the board.

0:42.8

I mean, the Supreme Court ruling is an injunction against the barbed wire.

0:49.0

And it leaves it, I guess the Supreme Court just leaves it open to the Biden White House.

0:54.1

Do you want to send

0:55.6

people to Texas and start to remove the barbed wire? You can do that.

1:01.0

Effectively, that was the Supreme Court decision. I'm simplifying it, but that was pretty

1:06.0

much it. And, you know, Texas said we're going to continue to place this barbed wire. And the Biden White House, under enormous pressure from other Democrats, they're saying, no, you have to stop.

1:17.4

And the big question that everyone has is, you know, when these 24 hours, when this warning is up, will the Biden White House federalize the National Guard of Texas?

1:28.3

Will they actually make a move to get the National Guard to start to remove this Bobwire and these fortifications?

1:38.3

And that's where we are.

1:39.3

But Texas has gotten a lot of support from a lot of governors.

1:43.3

Last count was 25, 26 states have actually

1:47.5

signed a joint letter in support of the actions of Abbott and, and we now have the Republicans,

1:57.5

and there are reports that Mitch McConnell held a meeting with the Republican senators,

2:04.1

and he said that this action from Texas changes the dynamic of the linkage between the

2:13.6

funding of the border and Ukraine.

2:16.6

This meeting that McConnell called was about Ukraine,

2:20.8

about getting the consensus to fund Ukraine,

2:24.2

because there are divisions about funding Ukraine.

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