{"id":54602,"date":"2024-04-24T12:23:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=54602"},"modified":"2024-04-24T12:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:23:32","slug":"sometimes-congress-priorities-are-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=54602","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Congress&#8217; Priorities Are Amazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/while-congress-abandons-border-35-billion-slipped-israel-bill-migrants-and-refugees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zero Hedge<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>While Congress\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">failed to pass a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/idahocapitalsun.com\/2024\/04\/21\/u-s-house-votes-down-border-bill-favored-by-conservatives\/\">border security bill<\/a><\/span>\u00a0over the weekend amid a flurry of billions in international aid to Ukraine and Israel, they\u00a0<em>did<\/em>\u00a0set aside\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">$3.5 billion<\/span>\u00a0for &#8220;Migration and Refugee Assistance&#8221; for the State Department\u00a0to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8220;address humanitarian needs of vulnerable populations and communities.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>While written in an absurdly broad brushstroke that&#8217;s going to be open to interpretation, X user &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Oilfield_Rando\">Oilfield Rando<\/a>&#8216; suggests that the funds will be used &#8220;to pay the NGOs coordinating the illegal invasion at our southern border, and providing all the freebies once they&#8217;re in.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article includes the following screenshot from Twitter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DepartmentOfStateMigration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DepartmentOfStateMigration.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DepartmentOfStateMigration.jpg 487w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DepartmentOfStateMigration-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It really is time for a new Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Zero Hedge reported the following: While Congress\u00a0failed to pass a\u00a0border security bill\u00a0over the weekend amid a flurry of billions in international aid to Ukraine and Israel, they\u00a0did\u00a0set aside\u00a0$3.5 billion\u00a0for &#8220;Migration and Refugee Assistance&#8221; for the State Department\u00a0to &#8220;address &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=54602\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12143,735,10091,10689,9588,13514,2861,8976,11782],"class_list":["post-54602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-border","tag-congress","tag-migrants","tag-ngos","tag-refugees","tag-southern-border","tag-state-department","tag-zero-hedge","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54604,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54602\/revisions\/54604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}