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Misalignedimmigration/border

I will secure America's southern border and pass H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act, and will not send additional foreign aid before securing our own border.

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MisalignedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 74%

Independently verified against two live, reputable Wikipedia articles. (1) H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act of 2023, passed the Republican-led House on May 3, 2023, but stalled in the Senate and never became law; the border was not secured by his legislative action. (2) In December 2023 Johnson said Ukraine aid would be 'predicated on new border-security measures,' and in February 2024 he called the bipartisan Senate border-and-aid deal 'dead on arrival.' (3) In April 2024, however, Johnson as Speaker personally shepherded a ~$61B Ukraine aid package (part of the ~$95B Ukraine/Israel/Indo-Pacific package) to House passage WITH NO border-related provision; it was signed into law by President Biden. That signature affirmative action directly reversed the promise's most operative and falsifiable plank -- 'will not send additional foreign aid before securing our own border' -- because he sent foreign aid before the border was secured. This is a measure taken against the promise's direction, so MISALIGNED (-0.75) is correct and fair under a nonpartisan standard: a politician of either party who led foreign aid to enactment after pledging 'no aid before border security' would earn the same label. It stops short of HOSTILE because he genuinely championed the H.R. 2 border-security side of the promise. It is not too harsh (he took the contradicting action himself, not merely failed to act) and not too lenient (the core condition was actively violated, precluding a positive PARTIAL). Prior rating's outcome stands; confidence nudged slightly up given the facts are well-documented and undisputed.

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