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1/19/19
WASHINGTON — House Democrats have added more than $1 billion in border-related spending to a package of funding bills that would reopen most of the government, even as President Trump said he would have a “major announcement” on Saturday about the border and the shutdown stalemate. The proposal to include more spending on border measures is scheduled for a vote next week, according to two senior Democratic officials. The plan reflects a shift in strategy by congressional Democrats, who have maintained that they would not give the president a counter-proposal until he drops his insistence on a wall and signs legislation to reopen the government. It is an attempt to rebut Mr. Trump’s repeated portrayal of Democrats as opponents of border security and their denunciation of his wall as an embrace of open borders.
About half the money, $524 million, would be for additional infrastructure at ports of entry on the border, one Democrat said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the plans have not been formally announced, while $563 million more would be inserted to fund 75 immigration judges, who adjudicate the claims of migrants who make asylum claims at the border. The funds were incorporated into a package of six spending bills that House and Senate Republicans and Democrats agreed to last year, and which cover funding for all the closed portions of the federal government except for the Department of Homeland Security. Democrats are also considering a new funding bill for the department, which has $1.3 billion allocated for border security. The proposal would include additional border protection measures they have endorsed, such as more personnel and scanning technology to intercept illicit drugs. Over the past two weeks, the House has passed an array of bills to reopen the government, including several Republican-drafted measures, only to be blocked by Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, who says he will not bring up any bill the president will not sign.
House Democrats Add $1 Billion in Border-Related Spending to Measures to Reopen Government
It seems the House Democrats have inserted another $1 Billion into House bills for southern border security. These funds would beef up security and technology at the ports of entry where most smuggled drugs enter and for more immigration judges. This additional $1 Billion would increase the Democrat border security funding package to $2.6 Billion until November 2019. Trump and McConnell still refuse to release more than a million economic hostages to their government shutdown.
Unfortunately this is dead on arrival in the Senate, and for the same reason... “border security” is not Trump’s “great great (useless) wall.”
This is interesting. Democrats have determined that there is a problem and that they want to address one part of it, but not the whole solution.
The question is, then, is why not address the whole problem? It's not like another $5 billion one way or the other is going to have a real impact on a $22 trillion debt.
Why not do it all?
Why continue to argue about which parts of the partial solution to implement?
House Democrats Add $1 Billion in Border-Related Spending to Measures to Reopen Government
It seems the House Democrats have inserted another $1 Billion into House bills for southern border security. These funds would beef up security and technology at the ports of entry where most smuggled drugs enter and for more immigration judges. This additional $1 Billion would increase the Democrat border security funding package to $2.6 Billion until November 2019. Trump and McConnell still refuse to release more than a million economic hostages to their government shutdown.
This is interesting. Democrats have determined that there is a problem and that they want to address one part of it, but not the whole solution.
The question is, then, is why not address the whole problem? It's not like another $5 billion one way or the other is going to have a real impact on a $22 trillion debt.
In the mean time, the illegal immigration continues, illegal drug trade continues, illegal human trafficking continues and pointless political bickering continues enabling the rest.
Why are we arguing about which parts of a partial solution we want to implement? Why not do it all? Bite the bullet and spend another 1/10th of one percent of the upcoming fiscal year's outlays and do the whole job.
House Democrats Add $1 Billion in Border-Related Spending to Measures to Reopen Government
It seems the House Democrats have inserted another $1 Billion into House bills for southern border security. These funds would beef up security and technology at the ports of entry where most smuggled drugs enter and for more immigration judges. This additional $1 Billion would increase the Democrat border security funding package to $2.6 Billion until November 2019. Trump and McConnell still refuse to release more than a million economic hostages to their government shutdown.
I'll admit sometimes I wonder how self-aware folks on the right are.
But watching you stealth edit your sentence from the original "It's not like another $5 billion one way or the other is going to have a real impact on anything," presumably because you quickly realized that admitting the truth obliterates the point you were trying to make, convinces me you do have self-awareness. If the mission is to criticize Dems for not going all in, you sure as hell can't admit that $5B ain't building the wall!
This NYT article illustrates the current habit of the news media to ascribe to the "LOOK!! A squirrel!!" method of news reporting.
Why hold the entire government hostage for just one of those parts? (Trump will have to explain that in 2020 and it is stupid to think the voter is going to forgive all this.)
Stealth edit? What is the difference between a garden variety edit and "stealth" edit?
Proof reading sometimes reveals that the most accurate meaning was not written. That is why the change was made. Why do you make edits, if you do so? Is every thought you write perfect and complete in its first writing?
Why not? Simple...because that's what Trump wants to do. The Dems cannot be seen supporting anything that Trump wants to do.
Care to name the slaves sold in the human trafficking trade just aren't worth our effort to save? Which addicts to be are just not worth our efforts to save?
Which women raped on their trek to the Southern Border just aren't worth our efforts to save?
You seem anxious to pick and choose who is worth saving. Why is this?
If we can do it all, and we can, why not do it all?
Yes we all know. The pain our government employees are going through because of Trump and McConnell isn't squat until Trump gets his $5.6 Billion vanity wall demand.
America won't forget this Trump/McConnell pain in 2020. Trump is toast and the GOP will hopefully lose the Senate. History will also not be kind to Trump and his enablers.
Why not? Simple...because that's what Trump wants to do. The Dems cannot be seen supporting anything that Trump wants to do.
I have no problem with edits! I've just never seen one so revealing of the author's inner thought process play out in real time.
Normally I'd have to wonder whether deep down you know the money Trump is torturing Americans to secure is deeply insufficient for its stated purpose. But now not only do I know you know, I know you know that you can never openly acknowledge it (particularly when trying to kick Democrats for their overtures).
Not to burst your bubble here, but the wall does not all of a sudden stop all this. We have no real evidence it would even slow these things down.
Yes we all know. The pain our government employees are going through because of Trump and McConnell isn't squat until Trump gets his $5.6 Billion vanity wall demand.
America won't forget this Trump/McConnell pain in 2020. Trump is toast and the GOP will hopefully lose the Senate. History will also not be kind to Trump and his enablers.
House Democrats Add $1 Billion in Border-Related Spending to Measures to Reopen Government
It seems the House Democrats have inserted another $1 Billion into House bills for southern border security. These funds would beef up security and technology at the ports of entry where most smuggled drugs enter and for more immigration judges. This additional $1 Billion would increase the Democrat border security funding package to $2.6 Billion until November 2019. Trump and McConnell still refuse to release more than a million economic hostages to their government shutdown.
Ports of entry are not the issue. it is places that are not ports of entry where people are crossing the border that is the issue.
there are no hostages or you don't know the definition of a hostage which wouldn't surprise me.
Pelosi knows what it will take to open government and she could easily get what she wants.
5b for DACA legislation.
that would do it.
House Democrats Add $1 Billion in Border-Related Spending to Measures to Reopen Government
Why not do it all?
Why continue to argue about which parts of the partial solution to implement?
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