49 Republicans Help Dems Pass Billions for 95K Afghans Brought to U.S.

A total of 49 House and Senate Republicans helped Democrats pass billions in American taxpayer money on welfare, driver's licenses, housing costs, and more for Afghans brought to the United States as part of President Joe Biden's massive resettlement operation.

On Thursday, 34 House Republicans and 15 Senate Republicans voted with Democrats to approve $6.4 billion in taxpayer money for the roughly 95,000 Afghans that Biden hopes to bring to the U.S. over the next 12 months - a population nine times larger than Jackson, Wyoming's resident population.

The Republican lawmakers backed the funding provisions despite overwhelming opposition to Afghan resettlement from Republican and Republican-leaning voters.

The latest Pew Research Center survey shows that 63 percent of GOP voters oppose the Afghan resettlement.

Already, as Breitbart News reported, 40,800 Afghans are temporarily living at eight U.S. military bases in Texas, Virginia, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Indiana, and New Jersey.

The funding for Biden's resettlement operation was slipped into a government funding bill and will give public benefits like welfare, housing assistance, medical coverage, and state-issued driver's licenses to tens of thousands of newly-arrived Afghans.

The funding bill leaves Biden's resettlement operation wide open for future waves of Afghans to be brought to the U.S. by extending such resettlement to September 2022 and beyond for the foreign relatives of Afghans who get resettled in American communities.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/30/49-republicans-help-democrats-pass-billions-in-welfare-drivers-licenses-for-95k-afghans-brought-to-u-s/