D.C. Download: As Senate works border deal, Cortez Masto and other Hispanic Dems left out
With the clock ticking on the president’s supplemental funding request, Senate negotiators are trying to make a deal to restrict asylum access in exchange for Ukraine aid — and no Latinos are at the negotiating table. Plus, your newsletter author will be at the NBA’s inaugural in-season tournament in Las Vegas next week, which features neither my basement-dwelling Washington Wizards or Miriam Adelson’s newly acquired Dallas Mavericks. If you’d like to meet up while I’m in Vegas, drop me a line!
With the war in Israel nearing the two-month mark and the war in Ukraine approaching two years, Senate leaders are working out a deal to send aid to both countries as part of a national security supplemental funding request from the Biden administration — but it’s hung up on an all too familiar political graveyard: the border.
While her fellow Latino Democrats have come out against restricting asylum without getting in return a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented (amid other Senate Democrats suggesting an openness to asylum changes) Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) is waiting for a proposal to drop before taking a stance.
Nevada’s congressional Democrats are backing the administration’s request, which includes $61.4 billion for Ukraine, $14.3 billion for Israel, $14 billion for border security at the U.S.-Mexico border, $7.4 billion for allies in the Indo-Pacific region and $9.15 billion for humanitarian aid in affected regions, including Gaza.
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