Dems pass their weird agenda and ignore real issues

 Washington Examiner:

Democrats in Congress racked up a handful of legislative wins before departing Washington for the August recess, but Republicans say lawmakers skipped town without attempting to resolve, or acknowledge, the border crisis.

Senators left Capitol Hill in early August while the House is preparing for a final vote on an anti-inflation bill that may give them a leg up ahead of the midterm elections in November. Other legislative wins in recent weeks include the CHIPS Act to boost competition with Chinese chipmakers; the PACT Act, which expands healthcare and benefits to veterans who were exposed to burn pits; and reforms to gun laws.

Republicans accused Democrats of ignoring the national security and humanitarian situation at the U.S.-Mexico boundary, where more people have been encountered attempting to enter the country illegally over the past year than any other time in the Border Patrol's 98-year existence.

"Democrats aren't doing anything because the border is exactly the way they want it. This is all by design and has been since last January," said Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who frequently leads congressional delegation tours to the border.

The Democratic Party is divided at the moment over what to do with the border crisis. Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and New York City Mayor Eric Adams called on the federal government to help receive 100 migrants being dropped off in their cities each day by buses running from Arizona and Texas. But in Congress, other Democrats are still focused on legalization efforts for millions of undocumented immigrants in the country, with more illegal immigrants being released from the border into the country every day.

Republicans had attempted to include amendments in the climate change bill as it went through the Senate over the weekend, but Democrats successfully blocked their attempts to keep in place a pandemic-related protocol that allowed illegal immigrants to be immediately turned back to Mexico.

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What the Democrats did is put a fraudulent name on a big spending pill and increased taxes and pretend it has done something about inflation. What they called legislative wins were not supported by most Americans.

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