Are you horrified by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, yet wary of your tax dollars — or sons and daughters — going off to support the counteroffensive while our own issues here at home pile up?
You’re not alone. Thankfully, two GOP lawmakers want to make sure that your interests are defended at the federal level.
Two Republican congressmen have respectively filed bills that would force the Biden administration to address our crippling border crisis before sending any of our own resources off to fight the Ruskies.
Montana Rep. Matt Rosendale and North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn both introduced bills early last month to ensure that the massive invasion of illegal immigrants flooding across our border is not allowed to continue while defense efforts are diverted to Ukraine instead.
On Tuesday, GovTrack Insider broke down the two bills, which offer alternative options for how to prioritize the border crisis over sending aid to Ukraine’s defense against the longstanding encroachment of Russia into its own domestic affairs.
Rosendale’s Secure America’s Borders First Act “would ban the use of federal dollars to assist Ukraine until the U.S.-Mexico border achieves ‘operational control,’ including a border wall as per former President Donald Trump’s famous campaign pledge.”
The bill even includes a requirement for a wall at least 30 feet tall. Rosendale introduced the act as H.R. 6648 on February 8.
“While our nation has miserably failed to secure our own border and protect our own territorial integrity, we are now being told by ‘America Last’ politicians on both sides of the aisle, that it is our obligation to do so for Ukraine,” the lawmaker declared in a press release.
“Before warmongers rush America into another foreign conflict over the border of an Eastern European nation thousands of miles from our shores, at the very least they should ensure our southern border is secure first.”
“The American people are sick and tired of career politicians consistently putting the interests of foreign nations above our own, we must put America first,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
The American people are sick and tired of career politicians consistently putting the interests of foreign nations above our own, we must put America first 🇺🇸 https://t.co/tHPyoNb4zH
— Matt Rosendale (@RepRosendale) March 1, 2022