Chuck Schumer Dodges Question Of Whether He Supports New Border Security Funding

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Moreover, the budget reconciliation rules do not allow Congress to make changes to Social Security, which Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania, ranking member of the House Budget Committee, has acknowledged.
37% : The legislation requires federal immigration authorities to detain illegal migrants who are accused of committing an array of criminal offenses.
36% : " Trump has emphasized that he will not sign legislation that cuts Americans' benefits from key entitlement programs.
34% : There were just over 7,000 border patrol encounters in March, marking a decrease of roughly 130,000 from March 2024 under former President Joe Biden, according to a White House fact sheet. ICE is facing a $2 billion budget shortfall for this fiscal year, Axios scooped in March.
33% : "The Democrats are out right now trying to make hay out of the fact that we're going to gut Medicaid and all these other things, is simply not true," Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday during a joint press conference with Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
15% : "Look the bottom line is very simple -- their overall budget is awful and it has huge cuts to Medicaid, to SNAP, to housing, to veterans up and across the board, even cuts on Social Security when they indirectly hurt it to give tax breaks to billionaires," Schumer said.

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