Posted on 03/25/2020 4:34:11 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
The massive stimulus package awaiting a vote in the Senate would prohibit the Pentagon from shifting $10.5 billion in coronavirus funding to a counter-drug account it has been using to fund President Trump’s southern border wall.
According to bill text released by the Senate Appropriations Committee, the bill would allow the Pentagon to transfer the coronavirus funds to other accounts “except for ‘Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense.’”
The stimulus deal agreed to early Wednesday by the White House and Senate leaders would provide the Pentagon a total of $10.5 billion. That includes $1.5 billion for the National Guard and $713.6 million for operations including the hospital ship deployments.
A Democratic summary of the bill described the language as intended to “prevent funds in this title from being diverted to build a wall on the southern border.”
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Pentagon is being increasingly called upon to supplement civilian medical capacity and supplies.
A Navy hospital ship based in San Diego is en route to Los Angeles, and another ship based in Virginia is expected to head to New York City in the coming weeks. The Army is also preparing to deploy field hospitals to Seattle and New York.
Thousands of National Guardsmen around the country are also helping respond to the pandemic, with the federal government so far paying for them in California, New York and Washington.
The bill would also provide $1 billion for the Defense Production Act, a wartime authority lawmakers have been urging Trump to use to ramp up production of coronavirus tests, ventilators, masks and other critical supplies.
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Just say no
Republicans need to be told to get that provision the hell out of the legislation.
I kinda agree....if the bill is to provide relief against the virus....let’s stick to that for now.
I have to give it to the Rats. They never, ever stop hating America and Americans.
Do I understand this? Part of this bill is to ban all defense
money on the wall? Including money already being used?
Bush League Republican bastards.
So, we can be forced to stay in our homes, but hundreds of thousands of potentially diseased illegals can’t be blocked from crossing our borders.
Did I get anything incorrect here?
Reading without pictures is hard. Put on your thinking cap from first grade... Try again. If that does not work you are lost to the world.
I kinda agree....if the bill is to provide relief against the virus....let’s stick to that for now.
So a bill claimed to be recovery from a virus opens a vector for it into America. That’s what you get when dealing with RATs.
Perhaps because R's traditionally have tended to cower and invite abuse.
It seems imperative that in well-specified national emergency legislation that bills contain only issues involving that emergency. Other proposed bills that are essentially discretionary can be used as vehicles for horse trading.
It is in their blood. The DIMS/LIBS thrive on hate.
No.
The DIMS/LIBS are malignancies on civil society and on freedom. What chanchres.
DJT won’t sign it if that is in it. He as talking about the importance of the wall again today in the daily briefing.
ping
So the stimulus bill could actually help reinfection the United States. Good thinking Rats!
Confused. Thought all this was settled, or is it two different bills?
The best possible outcome is that NOTHING gets passed.
Government is not your friend.
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