Could new Senate bill doom a Trump presidency?
The Senate has passed a $95 billion “national security bill,” but Glenn Beck believes it should actually be called a foreign war bill, as it does less for the border than it does for foreign countries.
However, that’s not the end of it.
Senator J.D. Vance is under the impression that this bill could give Democrats a powerful tool if Donald Trump were to win the 2024 presidential election — as there is a hidden clause within it.
The hidden clause would give Democrats the ability to impeach Trump if he tried to stop funding Ukraine.
“Using a weird archaic rule from the Impound Control Act, the Democrats argued in 2019 that because money had been appropriated to Ukraine,” Vance explains to Glenn, “and because Trump had refused to spend the money as appropriated, he had actually violated the law.”
Vance goes on to tell Glenn that what the Democrats have done with this law is appropriate money not just through the end of 2024, but into 2025 and 2026.
“So if Trump again refused to give the money that was appropriated to Ukraine in exactly the manner prescribed, they would not have just a similar but the exact same argument for impeaching him in 2025,” he says.
“It would be absurd and spurious, and we would hopefully defeat it, but we shouldn’t give the Democrats weapons, because they might stupidly use them,” Vance warns.
Glenn isn’t pleased with this hidden clause nor the bill itself.
“This is a wrong-headed bill,” he says. “It will be discovered at some point: Who enriched themselves? What NGOs enriched themselves, what politicians enriched themselves, where did all this money go?”
“It will be revealed; it’s just a matter of time,” he adds.
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What you need to know about the Senate’s NEW war bill and how you can stop it
Despite its “border” bill being effectively shut down, the U.S. Senate remains relentless in its pursuit of passing a bill that will fund Ukraine, Israel, and perhaps even Hamas.
This new $95 billion war package “unites Democrats [and] sharply divides Republicans on an issue where most Republican voters and most Republican senators are adamantly opposed to the Democrats' position,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) tells Glenn Beck, adding that unfortunately, “it looks like they're going to be able to pass this thing in the next 48 hours or so.”
“Senate Republican leadership [gave] the Senate Democrats more than enough votes” to pass the bill, but “the remaining 31 of us who didn't vote for this have strong concerns ... that are backed up by voters all across America,” he says.
Lee explains that he “put up an amendment ... making sure that this aid wouldn't end up going to Hamas,” but the response has been that since they “cut UNRA out,” the aid will be sent to “Gaza but not Hamas.”
However, since “there are 19 U.N. agencies operating in Gaza,” saying Hamas will be excluded from receiving aid is equivalent to “saying we're gonna give money to the U.K., but it won't go to the British,” Lee points out.
But funding Hamas is just the beginning of his concerns.
“$60 billion of it goes to Ukraine,” he explains, and “within that portion of it ... about $8 billion goes to direct economic assistance to the Ukrainian government” so that they can continue “paying all of Zelenskyy’s bureaucrats, every government employee in Ukraine, [and] civilians ... for an entire year.”
“They're also free to use that for their own welfare benefit system” and “for their own sort of Ukrainian crony capitalism.”
“We've got actual instances of this type of ‘aid’ that we've given to Ukraine over the last couple of years being used to buy people concert tickets” and “shore up the viability of clothing stores,” Lee says.
“Also in the bill, you've got a total of between $9 and $10 billion going (loosely speaking) to some type of humanitarian aid ... in and around Ukraine and in and around Israel, which means that in theory, the Biden administration could channel most or even all of that aid to Gaza.”
If that’s the case, the money will likely go straight into the hands of Hamas, which will do what it’s always done after aid is sent to Gaza — “build tunnels,” “buy arms,” and “prepare to attack innocent Israelis,” Lee warns.
Meanwhile, the average hardworking, taxpaying American “has to shell out an additional thousand just to live — just to put the roof over [their] head.”
But there is hope. Look no further than last week when the disastrous border bill was thankfully killed.
“You gotta do it again,” says Glenn. “You do make a difference. Call your Senator and say in no uncertain terms, ‘You're not to keep giving my children and my great-great-grandchildren's money away ... Enough is enough.”’
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Insulting a police officer could soon become a crime in Kentucky
A bill advancing out of a Kentucky Senate committee would make it a crime for people to insult a police officer to the point where it causes a "violent response," Fox News reported.
The proposed bill came in response to the riots last summer.
What are the details?
The bill advanced out of the committee Thursday on a 7-3 vote. The bill's sponsor, Sen. Danny Carroll (R), is a retired police officer who says that something needs to be done to prevent the escalation of "riotous behavior."
"In these riots, you see people getting up in officers' faces, yelling in their ears, doing everything they can to provoke a violent response," he said. "I'm not saying the officers do that, but there has to be a provision within that statute to allow officers to react to that. Because that does nothing but incite those around that vicinity, and it furthers and escalates the riotous behavior."
He added, "This country was built on lawful protest, and it's something that we must maintain — our citizens' right to do so. What this deals with are those who cross the line and commit criminal acts."
Fox News reported, "The bill kept language making a person guilty of disorderly conduct — a Class B misdemeanor — if they accost, insult, taunt, or challenge a law enforcement officer with offensive or derisive words, or by gestures or other physical contact, that would have a direct tendency to provoke a violent response from the perspective of a reasonable and prudent person."
A Class B misdemeanor carries a penalty of up to 90 days' imprisonment.
The bill is headed for the full Senate and could be passed as early as next week.
What are others saying about this?
State Sen. David Yates (D) seemed to suggest that the bill is overkill.
"I don't believe that any of my good officers are going to be provoked to a violent response because somebody does a 'Yo mama' joke or whatnot," Yates told the Louisville Courier Journal.
Corey Shapiro, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, added that the "idea that the legislature would be criminalizing speech in such a way is offensive."
"Verbally challenging police action — even if by insult or offensive language — is a cornerstone of our democracy," he told the outlet. "And the First Amendment protects people's ability to express themselves, even if it's using offensive words to the police."
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