The former president is facing converging financial crunches as he and the Republican Party confront a shortfall against President Biden and the Democrats.
The goal of the program is to keep people from skipping out on their asylum hearings, joining the millions of undocumented people who stay in the country indefinitely.
Republicans have long sought to make Israel a partisan issue, framing their party as the only one truly supportive of the Jewish state. The Senate majority leader’s blistering speech may have helped.
The Republican senator, whose State of the Union response drew savage criticism, is not the first novice lawmaker from the South to see her introductory event veer off the rails.