A While Back Trump Asked For Money
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A major sticking point in the House stems from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, where lawmakers are concerned that the bill could end up funding the administration’s deportation policies. Appropriators are trying to assuage those concerns by ensuring the funding can’t be used beyond the purposes of humanitarian aid.
“We should provide the humanitarian assistance necessary to change the conditions along the border, particularly as it relates to immigrant children,” House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday. “But we need to make sure that there are guardrails that are erected so that we do not inadvertently fund the reckless Trump deportation machine. That will be, in my view, our negotiating posture moving forward.”
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More than half of the funding in the Senate bill would go toward the Office of Refugee Resettlement to care for migrant children, while $1.3 billion would be used for improving conditions and reducing overcrowding at Customs and Border Protection facilities.
The White House request had included $3.3 billion for humanitarian aid to increase shelters and care for unaccompanied migrant children, as well as $1.1 billion for border operations like increasing the number of detention beds.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/449431-house-democrats-close-to-finalizing-border-aid-bill
“We should provide the humanitarian assistance necessary to change the conditions along the border, particularly as it relates to immigrant children,” House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday. “But we need to make sure that there are guardrails that are erected so that we do not inadvertently fund the reckless Trump deportation machine. That will be, in my view, our negotiating posture moving forward.”
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More than half of the funding in the Senate bill would go toward the Office of Refugee Resettlement to care for migrant children, while $1.3 billion would be used for improving conditions and reducing overcrowding at Customs and Border Protection facilities.
The White House request had included $3.3 billion for humanitarian aid to increase shelters and care for unaccompanied migrant children, as well as $1.1 billion for border operations like increasing the number of detention beds.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/449431-house-democrats-close-to-finalizing-border-aid-bill
transporter
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Oh grow the f*** up.
Trump asked for money for a border WALL....is your dumb ass communist self really trying to state that because TRUMP turned down money for the wall in 2017 and in 2018...and because he wasn't given any in 2019...that:
1. it is the Dem's fault?
2. That a wall would have been built my now and stopped the massive influx of immigrants that are crossing the border???
Are you REALLY that stupid.
NPC
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You have not switched to decaf yet, have you ?
How do you know this poster is a Communist ?
BOP
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Maybe they figure he can't deliver and so they'll have a "gotcha" sound bite the size of the iceberg that the Titanic hit.
Friggin' Americans will load up the pickups, hook up the campers and head to the border to build the damn wall themselves if the Demonrats screw around too much. We the People have already raised nearly $25 MILLION dollars.
BOP
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There, there, little pooter. It does take some people longer to learn not to stick their peckers in an electrical outlet, but you'll come around. Eventually.