jimnyc
06-28-2019, 12:45 PM
Excellent news all the way around.
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Huge Win for Trump: Dems Agree to Emergency Funding for Border Crisis They Once Called 'Fake'
On Thursday afternoon, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally agreed to support a clean bill for border security funding to help immigrants detained in U.S. facilities. The $4.6 billion funding bill passed 84-8 in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, but Pelosi declared at the time that she would not consider the bill in the House, preferring a Democratic measure aimed at limiting the president's control over border facilities.
"In order to get resources to the children fastest, we will reluctantly pass the Senate bill," Pelosi said in a letter to fellow House Democrats. "As we pass the Senate bill, we will do so with a Battle Cry as to how we go forward to protect children in a way that truly honors their dignity and worth."
Republicans in the Senate had actually brought the House funding measure to a test vote earlier this week. It failed, 37-55, with three Democrats voting against the measure and with seven Democratic presidential candidates absent from the vote.
The crisis at the border has become harder and harder to deny. Customs and Border Protection reported a 623 percent increase in apprehensions from May 2017. Illegal immigrant arrivals are set to hit one million by the end of the year.
Earlier this month, Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) accused President Trump of "manufacturing a crisis." Senators Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) — each of them a presidential candidate — downplayed or denied the crisis. The Democratic National Committee tweeted, "There. Is. No. Crisis. At. The. Border."
Rest - https://pjmedia.com/trending/huge-win-for-trump-dems-agree-to-emergency-funding-for-border-crisis-they-once-called-fake/
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Huge Win for Trump: Dems Agree to Emergency Funding for Border Crisis They Once Called 'Fake'
On Thursday afternoon, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally agreed to support a clean bill for border security funding to help immigrants detained in U.S. facilities. The $4.6 billion funding bill passed 84-8 in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, but Pelosi declared at the time that she would not consider the bill in the House, preferring a Democratic measure aimed at limiting the president's control over border facilities.
"In order to get resources to the children fastest, we will reluctantly pass the Senate bill," Pelosi said in a letter to fellow House Democrats. "As we pass the Senate bill, we will do so with a Battle Cry as to how we go forward to protect children in a way that truly honors their dignity and worth."
Republicans in the Senate had actually brought the House funding measure to a test vote earlier this week. It failed, 37-55, with three Democrats voting against the measure and with seven Democratic presidential candidates absent from the vote.
The crisis at the border has become harder and harder to deny. Customs and Border Protection reported a 623 percent increase in apprehensions from May 2017. Illegal immigrant arrivals are set to hit one million by the end of the year.
Earlier this month, Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) accused President Trump of "manufacturing a crisis." Senators Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) — each of them a presidential candidate — downplayed or denied the crisis. The Democratic National Committee tweeted, "There. Is. No. Crisis. At. The. Border."
Rest - https://pjmedia.com/trending/huge-win-for-trump-dems-agree-to-emergency-funding-for-border-crisis-they-once-called-fake/