Questions have been posed as to whether the Senate’s $118-billion bipartisan bill on border security and foreign aid is good for American taxpayers.
NTD spoke to Richard Stern, the director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation, and a former budget adviser to Congressman Mike Johnson. Mr. Stern said the bill would be largely ineffective, as it includes substantial funding for non-security immigration non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to settle border crossers in the United States, which would merely continue the border crisis.
Much of the bill’s vast funding, he said, is for non-military activities in war-torn Ukraine, including the payment of Ukrainian pensions, and would lead to increased inflation for American taxpayers without providing Ukraine with a military advantage in its conflict with Russia.
