Senate releases $118 billion package addressing border, aid for Ukraine and Israel
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🗓️ 5 February 2024
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The Senate has released a new package addressing the border and foreign aid.
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USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Bart Jansen talks about Supreme Court decorum, ahead of arguments this week surrounding Donald Trump.
Pharmaceutical companies navigate new price guardrails.
USA TODAY Personal Finance Reporter Daniel de Visé explains how many parents continue to support their adult children financially.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday, February 5th, 2024. This is the excerpt. |
| 0:19.2 | Today, the Today the Senate releases a package to address the border and foreign aid, but what |
| 0:29.4 | chance does it have at passing? |
| 0:31.6 | Plus an early look to Thursday Supreme Court arguments about |
| 0:34.4 | Donald Trump's ballot eligibility and we discuss how many parents are supporting |
| 0:38.9 | their adult children financially. The Senate released a 118 billion dollar package yesterday that includes a long |
| 0:46.8 | awaited bipartisan deal to address migration at the southern border along with new aid for Ukraine, Israel, and other U.S. |
| 0:53.9 | allies. Specifically, the bill includes the supplemental aid package requested by |
| 0:58.5 | President Joe Biden for foreign conflicts. It would appropriate $60 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel, |
| 1:06.7 | and $10 billion for humanitarian aid, including in Gaza. |
| 1:10.1 | On border issues, it would include around $ 20 billion to expand the Department of Homeland |
| 1:14.3 | Security's ability to catch and transport migrants crossing illegally, among other provisions. |
| 1:20.6 | The legislation would end a practice known as catch and release where migrants caught crossing the border illegally are released into the United States while they wait for the government to process their asylum application. |
| 1:32.0 | Instead, they would be detained while their claims are |
| 1:34.4 | evaluated. It's not clear what chance the legislation has of passing in |
| 1:38.8 | Congress. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has told fellow Republicans in the House that the package is dead on a rival. |
| 1:46.5 | He's called on colleagues to take on the House's hardline border bill known as HR2, which has received no Democratic support. |
| 1:55.0 | Meanwhile, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has slammed Biden support for the package |
| 1:59.6 | and argued that further reform is needed to provide a safe legal pathway to citizenship for migrants. |
| 2:05.7 | You can read more with a link in today's show notes. A strong winter storm fueled by an atmospheric river slammed Californians yesterday with intense |
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