If you do appropriations in the Senate, you have 60 votes to support it. If you do rescissions, you can take it back with 50, which then makes it tougher to get a bipartisan agreement on an appropriations package.
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Harvard, like other universities, has allowed foreign students to abuse their visa privileges and advocate for violence and terrorism on campus.
We tried to do things the easy way with Harvard. Now, through their refusal to cooperate, we have to do things the hard way.
If Harvard won't defend the interests of its students, then we will.
We’re just getting started, we’ve implemented several transformational changes.
We are very confident that we can continue to provide hospitality to folks … while maintaining the same standard of security for passengers and our homeland.
That doesn’t mean there won’t be times where someone will have to remove their shoes.
I’m disappointed to see Schumer implicitly threaten to shut down the government.
We are aware of the sensitivities of using a rescissions package versus the appropriations process.