House Democrats Urge Biden to Bolster Border Security After He Signs $95 Billion Foreign Aid Bill

A group of centrist House Democrats is calling on President Joe Biden to bolster security at the southern border just hours after he signed a foreign aid package totaling $95 billion into law. In a statement published on Wednesday, Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez (D-Wash.), Jared Golden (D-Maine) Mary Peltola (D-Alaska), Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), and Don Davis (D-N.C.) said they “strongly agree” with the National Border Patrol Council—a labor union—that “Congress and the President must act and bring order to the Southern border.” “Our national security interests don’t stop at our physical borders,” the group said. “That is why we voted to send more weapons to Ukraine for its fight against Russia. The lesson of Pearl Harbor must not be forgotten: appeasement invites aggression against us. As Speaker Johnson stated last week, we would rather send ‘bullets than American boys.'”...