Why Congress keeps hurting Americans to fund endless wars



The Senate’s newly passed $95 billion package does next to nothing for Americans and does much more to fund endless war — especially with the billions in the package going toward Ukraine.

“It does not secure our border; it goes in and takes more money and straps your children and your grandchildren with another $95 billion. It gives money to Taiwan, which hacks off the Chinese,” Glenn Beck explains.

However, the blame can’t be laid entirely at the feet of the Democrats. Republicans are also fueling the war machine, as 45% of them want Ukrainian aid.

“I’ll never be able to make the case to the Lindsey Grahams of the world,” Glenn says, disappointed. “Is he just a war hawk that just wants war all the time because he actually believes it? I don’t know, but I will tell you this: The world is changing.”

“The biggest thing that is changing is our politicians are not following the Constitution. That’s the root of all our evils. We are not following the Constitution of the United States. Congress is no longer in charge of the purse. Congress doesn’t pass the laws. It’s all left in the hands of bureaucrats,” he continues.

“Before you know it, you’re a freaking slave, and who do you go to? It doesn’t matter who you vote for because they don’t make the laws anymore,” he adds.

Glenn believes this has to change unless we want to continue down a path where our freedom shrinks while the war machine grows.

“When you wake up, you start seeing, wow, this doesn’t work. Well, what doesn’t work? The Constitution or the people who are ignoring it?” Glenn says.

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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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