Posted on 04/26/2017 5:29:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
When Donald Trump stood in the lobby of Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 and announced he was running for president, he told all who listened to "mark" his words.
"I would do various things very quickly," Trump said.
"I would repeal and replace the big lie, Obamacare," he said.
"I will build a great, great wall on our southern border," he said. "And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.
"Mark my words," he said.
Fifteen months later -- after he won the Republican nomination and less than two months before his general election showdown -- Trump released a letter to pro-life leaders.
"As we head into the final stretch of the campaign, the help of leaders like you is essential to ensure that pro-life voters know where I stand, and also know where my opponent, Hillary Clinton, stands," Trump wrote.
"I am committed," Trump said, "to: ... Defunding Planned Parenthood as long as they continue to perform abortions, and re-allocating their funding to community health centers that provide comprehensive health care for women."
In his Inaugural Address, Trump did not back away from his pledge to secure the border.
"We will bring back our borders," he vowed.
Three days later, he used executive authority to reinstA week after Trump's inauguration, Vice President Mike Pence told the March for Life that Trump would keep his pro-life promises -- with the help of the newly elected, Republican-majority, pro-life Congress.
"Life is winning again in America," Pence said.
"That is evident in the election of pro-life majorities in the Congress of the United States of America," he said. "But it is no more evident, in any way, than in the historic election of a president who stands for a stronger America, a more prosperous America, and a president who, I proudly say, stands for the right to life -- President Donald Trump."
"I like to say that over there at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, we are in the promise-keeping business," said Pence.
"That's why on Monday, President Trump reinstated the Mexico City Policy to prevent foreign aid from funding organizations that promote or perform abortions worldwide," said Pence. "That's why this administration will work with the Congress to end taxpayer funding of abortion and abortion providers, and we will devote those resources to health care services for women across America."
In 2011, after Republicans won back control of the House in the 2010 election, then-Rep. Pence introduced an amendment that would, as Pence put it, "deny any and all funding to Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates for the rest of the fiscal year."
"I rise tonight because I also believe it's morally wrong to take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use it to fund organizations that provide and promote abortion -- like Planned Parenthood of America," Pence said when his amendment was considered on the House floor.
The House passed Pence's 2011 amendment, including it in the first funding bill approved by the then-new House Republican majority. But then-House Speaker John Boehner subsequently cut a spending deal with the Democrats in the Senate and the White House that did not include Pence's amendment to defund Planned Parenthood.
According to the Congressional Research Service, the Government Accountability Office determined that Planned Parenthood Federation of America affiliates received $400.56 million in Medicaid reimbursements in both federal and state dollars in 2012. Planned Parenthood affiliates, according to GAO, also spent $64.35 million in federal Title X funding in 2012.
When the House Republican leaders this year put together their weak and redistributionist reconciliation bill to "repeal and replace" Obamacare, it included language that would have denied Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood -- for just one year. But it would not have denied Title X money to Planned Parenthood -- because reconciliation bills do not deal with discretionary spending like that doled out under Title X.
When principled House conservatives opposed that Obamacare bill, the Republican leadership did not bring it up for a vote.
Now, Congress faces an April 28 deadline to pass a new government funding bill.
There is currently no talk that it will include language to prohibit funding of Planned Parenthood.
But there is talk that it will not include the language that President Trump has requested to provide $1.4 billion to begin his project to build "a great, great wall on our southern border."
The Republican House can pass and send to the Republican Senate a bill that funds the border wall but not Planned Parenthood. Or they can pass one that funds Planned Parenthood but not the border wall.
The former course of action would fulfill the campaign promises that got their president elected. The latter would appease congressional Democrats and the liberal press.
So, which will it be?ate the Mexico City policy, which denies federal funding to organizations that provide or promote abortions abroad.
But he needed congressional action to defund Planned Parenthood at home, and a congressional appropriation to begin building the wall he said would ultimately be funded by Mexico.
Which is why we must send a message to our congressmen to get behind Trump or there is the 2018 elections.
If Trump is weak in his promises to the electorate, that sends a message to the US and the world that he is not as resolute as he said he would be.
I would rather see him shut down the government because that sends more of a message to NK, et al, that when he says he wants something done, it better get done.
Your the kind of guy who stands behind the guy who just raised stakes in a poker game and shouts out “oh look, he only has a pair of aces”.
If you can’t figure out that now is not the time to appear weak we will end up in a Bush era fight
Then he needs to put them on the hot seat.
And nothing focuses attention like a gov shutdown.
What about going after “Crooked Hillary”. One of the reasons i voted for him.
What happened to reintstating the travel ban?
Why have we not heard about appealing this sanctuary city judges ruling?
Now the wall is in doubt
And PP will probably be funded
Anne Coulters speech is off (Why not send in the national guard to protect her???)
Looks kind of like the left is still in control of just about everything. No?
You realize that she cancelled her speech, don’t you?
-—Will the GOP fund Planned Parenthood...-—
Ivanka wouldn’t have it any other way
-—...but not Border Wall?-—
The RINOs wouldn’t have it any other way.
Nothing new under the sun.
Doesn't matter why...What matters is the left wins again...Who runs this country? We have the rpesidency and both houses of congress yet the left still gets just about everything it wants. How can that be?
A Proclamation should spread far and wide among Republicans, either start construction on the Wall and De-Fund Abortion, or we stay home on 2018.
A Real President would tell Congress, “De-Fund Planned Parenthood and give me the Billion to start the Wall, or I Veto Everything”.
How the hell do you get yourself in that position as Speaker? DUMBASS! The GOPe deserves to lose in 2018. I mean, really!
Hell yes......
Hell yes......
To answer the question posed by the headline. Yes. The GOP will fund the criminal organization known as ‘planned parenthood’, but will not fund the wall. Gotta keep the serfs in line don’t ya know.
Yes, I have been watching.
No I don’t think it’s OK but if that was the only thing shutting the government down when we are facing down the NOKO crazy the don’t shut the government down now. They ARE tied together and it has nothing to do with the funds they are arguing over. It has to do with throwing roadblocks in front of the people who are in the fight.
Look, if you have no pride and you want to strengthen the hand of our enemies that’s for you to live with. October is not that far off and I’m perfectly willing to wait. The wall will get built.
The wall would be a good investment, not sure why they’re so adamant against it. Just look at California: the amount they spend in terms of social services on illegals alone could pay for the wall.
And they do that every year! Monstrous stupidity.
http://www.nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/02/21/costs-illegal-immigration-california/
“The former course of action would fulfill the campaign promises that got their president elected. The latter would appease congressional Democrats and the liberal press.”
Appease Democrats and the liberal press! That way they’ll be invited to the right cocktail parties and Obama supporters will talk to them./SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARCCCCCCCCC!
I mean, can you possibly enlighten me on the what the roadblocks are.
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