Democrats release spending plan that cuts border security and funds abortion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The measure also fulfills a promise made by Democrats to cease construction of the southern border wall that former President Donald Trump championed as the best way to boost security along the Mexico border.
54% : Leahy contends domestic spending in his measure increases by 13%, compared to a 5% increase for defense spending.
51% : The legislation provides nearly $726 billion in defense spending.
48% : Their bills are filled with poison pills and problematic authorizing provisions, and they remove important legacy riders on topics like terrorism, abortion, and immigration that for years have enjoyed broad support on both sides of the aisle."
45% : The bills cut "core border security" funding, allow taxpayer funding for abortion, and lift domestic spending by 14%, among many other provisions Republicans are likely to oppose unanimously.
42% : The legislation returns $2 billion in border wall funding to the Treasury to halt new construction and transfers additional money to enable the removal of the border wall on public land.
41% : The bill advances important policy changes liberal Democrats have long sought, including the elimination of the Hyde Amendment, which for decades has prohibited federal taxpayer dollars from funding abortion, and adds other language allowing foreign aid to cover abortion services abroad.
35% : The measure also cuts detention capacity at facilities operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which Republicans said will hobble enforcement and the ability to remove people living here illegally.
31% : The abortion language and significant increase in domestic spending are nonstarters with GOP lawmakers, while the cut in border security funding coincides with thousands of illegal immigrants pouring over the southern border, many of them streaming past the border wall gaps the wall would have closed off.

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