Look…
I’m not saying it wouldn’t have helped Biden politically and not Trump, and that’s why it got scuttled.
What I would ask though is do you think Biden should’ve gotten a win for it (I already know the answer as you posted a CNN piece)? Because I sure as hell don’t. I think it should be a massive egg-on-his-face liability after he undid almost every single one of Trump’s executive orders and very publicly bragged about it, while encouraging and exacerbating the problem for three long years until it actually became a political liability.
Biden should pay a price for it, because drugs, crime, inundating our taxpayer funded services, and eventually Democratizing the would-be Democratic voters who are beholden to the party that enabled them is an *existential* threat to Democracy. Sorry dude, there’s no getting around that.
Sure, Israel and Ukraine get funding anyway (again, is flying Zelensky to PA a mere week ago or so w taxpayer funds so he can denigrate Vance and Trump impeachable?), but make it a standalone bill. This isn’t hard to do. You know, actually create transparency so that the public constituency can hold their elected servants accountable.
Most conservative border bill in four decades is relativism and not saying much. Relative to what? We don’t need Congressional action to all but shut the border. The president can act unilaterally. So, who’s playing politics? I would argue Biden was at our expense. Congressional action is reserved for what to do with the massive and growing problem we’ve spent a couple decades, but especially the last four years, creating.