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China and Russia Perform Military Exercises, Border Bill Fails, Israel Evacuates Civilians From Rafah

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Description: TOP NEWS | On today's Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The border bill fails to move forward in the Senate. The presidents of UCLA, Rutgers and Northwestern universities testify before Congress. China launches military drills around Taiwan Israel has evacuated 950,000 people from the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get Daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter -- the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Thursday, May 23rd.

0:05.6

Here are today's headlines. The Senate voted today on a very contested border bill. The Higher Chamber

0:26.2

voted on it for the first time back in February, it failed then and it failed

0:30.4

again today. On both the yeas are 43, the nays are 50,

0:36.0

three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn having not voted in the affirmative.

0:40.5

The motion is not agreed to. The bill was originally negotiated between

0:45.1

Republicans and Democrats Republican Senator James Lankford, Democrat

0:49.6

Senator Chris Murphy, and independent Senator Kristen Cinema originally negotiated Chris and Cinema

0:53.7

originally negotiated that bill.

0:55.9

But even Lankford and Cinema voted against it today,

0:59.4

criticizing the vote

1:04.0

for being politically motivated. In total, 50 senators voted no and 43 voted yes,

1:07.6

which fell far below that 60 vote threshold

1:11.2

that would have been needed to advance the bill.

1:14.0

Republicans have bashed this piece of legislation for doing little to nothing to secure

1:19.3

the border.

1:20.3

Republican Senator Ron Johnson said the bill spends 20 billion to not secure the border,

1:26.0

but to more efficiently encounter process and disperse illegal migrants.

1:32.0

As written, the bill allows up to 5,000 disperse illegal aliens

1:32.8

aliens daily to cross the border within a seven day period.

1:40.0

The bill's failure was anticipated following Republicans outspoken criticism of it.

1:45.4

And even if the bill had passed, Republican House leadership had already said it was dead on

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