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[3] I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor -in -Chief John Bickley.
[4] It's Friday, February 2nd, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[5] The European Union has agreed to a 50 billion euro or almost $54 billion fund for Ukraine to be used in their war with Russia.
[6] The fund consists of loans and grants that will be handed out over the next four years.
[7] The unanimous show of support for Ukraine comes after Hungary's Victor Orban was convinced to join his fellow European nations.
[8] Ukraine says the EU funds are critical to their economy, especially since U .S. aid is being debated in Congress.
[9] Orban asked for an additional review of how the money is being spent to safeguard against corruption.
[10] Details of the Senate Border Bill have yet to be released, but Kansas Senate, Senator Roger Marshall says Republicans seem torn on whether or not to support the bill.
[11] He believes a majority of the border problem could be solved if President Biden reinstated the remain -in -Mexico policy and fixed the asylum and parole issues.
[12] He told Morning Wire that the president could fix the border with a stroke of his pen.
[13] There's policies in place, laws in place.
[14] If he wanted to, he could secure the border.
[15] I've yet to hear out of his lips say, I want to secure the border.
[16] He has said he wants to grease the immigration system.
[17] So I'm a little bit leery of the person that we are trying to deal with right now.
[18] We have to fix asylum and we have to fix parole.
[19] Barack Obama paroled 5 ,000 people per year.
[20] 5 ,000.
[21] Joe Biden is prolling 700 ,000 people per year.
[22] He's breaking the law.
[23] The law clearly says for parole, they're supposed to be decided on an individual case -by -case basis.
[24] He's doing it 10 ,000 people at a time.
[25] But if we could fix parole, if we could fix asylum, Maybe we fix 70 % of the problem.
[26] The U .S. House overwhelmingly passed a bill calling for the deportation of illegal immigrants who are caught driving while intoxicated.
[27] The vote was 270 to 150, with 59 Democrats joining the Republican majority to oust the drunk drivers.
[28] 150 Democrats voted against the bill, including minority leader Hakeem Jeffries.
[29] Alabama Congressman Barry Moore introduced the bill after two of his constituents.
[30] were killed by an illegal immigrant in a car accident.
[31] We had a family in my hometown that lost the son and daughter -in -law to an illegal who was driving under the influence.
[32] And I think it had already been deported a couple of times.
[33] But when they don't have a driver's license, they don't have car insurance, there's no accountability in the process.
[34] And they just slap them on the wrist and send them on their way.
[35] And so this drunk driver who was here illegally killed a young couple.
[36] President Biden will visit East Palestine, Ohio this month, nearly a year after the devastating train derailment in the small Ohio town.
[37] Biden was widely criticized for not visiting the disaster site, especially because former President Trump did make a visit in the days following the Norfolk Southern train derailment, which released toxic chemicals into the environment.
[38] East Palestinian resident Russell Murphy says Biden is too late.
[39] Trump, he was here.
[40] Matter of fact, he brought water, he brought laundry detergent.
[41] we're actually still using some of it.
[42] You know, he stepped up.
[43] Biden, it's just going to be nothing but for his party.
[44] It's going to be photo ops.
[45] It's going to clog the town with traffic and the mess that's going to go with it.
[46] Even as Mayor Trent said, that there's just no, there's nothing that he can come here and do now.
[47] He missed it.
[48] Meanwhile, Norfolk Southern has agreed to be the first class one train operator to participate in a new federal system which allows employees to report safety problems without fear of reprisal.
[49] All of this is happening as an investor group has made a $1 billion investment in Norfolk Southern and is trying to oust the company's CEO.
[50] Elon Musk is considering reincorporating Tesla in Texas where the company is headquartered.
[51] Currently, Tesla is incorporated in Delaware where a judge this week rejected Musk's $56 billion compensation package saying he hadn't properly justified the pay.
[52] Asked by Musk on X whether the EB company should reincorporate in Texas, 87 % voted Tesla should make the move.
[53] Now the Tesla shareholders will weigh in.
[54] Delaware is considered the number one state for business.
[55] 68 % of Fortune 500 companies are incorporated there due to their friendly business practices.
[56] One billion TikTok users may remember this as The Week the Music Died, as songs from Taylor Swift, Drake, U2, Adele, and Ariana Grande have been pulled from the platform.
[57] Universal Music Group removed the artist's songs from TikTok after the two were unable to reach a deal on compensation.
[58] In a statement, Universal Music Group said, ultimately TikTok is trying to build a music -based business without paying fair value for the music.
[59] TikTok fired back and issued their own statement saying UMG's greed caused them to be unable to reach a deal, which hurts their artists.
[60] Music journalist Lars Brandl summed up the battle of the two behemoths.
[61] The two press releases that came out were bruising.
[62] And I don't think I've seen anything like it.
[63] from a company in the music industry.
[64] And the argument is essentially about money.
[65] It's about the royalties that TikTok pays for the use of universal music.
[66] These arguments happen often behind closed doors, but this argument has stepped out of those closed doors and into the public domain.
[67] It's spicier than any beef in hip -hop right now.
[68] The last time a similar music dispute occurred was in 2008 when Warner Music removed their titles from YouTube.
[69] The standoff lasted nine months.
[70] All right, those are your drive -home updates this afternoon.
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