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The House of Representatives Building and the East Portico of the US Capitol. Photo: Flickr. Yesterday, a tweet went viral that claimed that the COVID-19 relief bill included $500 million for Israel. It was designed to make people think that aid that could have gone to COVID is instead being directed to Israel. But the appropriation was actually included in a separate 6,000 page budget bill — the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. The antisemitism that followed the tweet — which was written by a self-appointed journalist, who defended it while admitting it was incorrect — was predic...

By CNSNews.com Staff | December 22, 2020 | 12:18pm EST The U.S.-Mexico border fence between Tijuana and San Diego County, Dec. 27, 2018. (GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) - The 5,593-page, $2.3 trillion bill that Congress passed on Tuesday to fund the government and provide for COVID-19 relief includes a passage on pages 415 and 416 that provides $250 million of “enhanced border security” in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt Tunisia and Oman. “Of the amounts appropriated in this title under the heading ‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense Wid...