Posted on 06/30/2019 7:26:27 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Under Pelosi’s guidance, the official Democratic Party response to the Trump administration abusing immigrant children is to give more money to the agencies the Trump administration relies on to abuse immigrant children.
House Democrats have lost their moral compass.
On Thursday morning, a reporter asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) what her party planned to do about writer E. Jean Carroll’s recent rape allegation against President Donald Trump.
Pelosi’s response was not a profile in courage.
“I haven’t spent any time on that,” she said, raising her arms in frustration. “I don’t know the people you’re referencing, I don’t know the person making the accusation. I haven’t paid that much attention to it.”
Not only was the top Democrat in Congress oddly unfamiliar with one of the biggest political stories of the past month, she did not believe her caucus had a responsibility to do anything about it.
“I don’t know what Congress’ role would be in any of this. But in any of these things, this isn’t about what Congress would do, this is about what the president’s own party would do. You’d really have to ask them. I’m busy worrying about children not being in their mother’s arms,” she added.
That last bit was a reference to the other major political story of the past month; the horrific conditions at overcrowded immigrant detention centers, where at least six child migrants have died in government custody since September.
But a few hours after Pelosi declared her devotion to the children suffering at the border, she deferred to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on their fate.
As horror stories detailing conditions at the border began piling up this week, McConnell passed a bipartisan bill expanding funding for Trump’s immigration authorities by $4.6 billion. Progressive Democrats in the House, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), wanted to include some basic humanitarian safeguards on that money, but Pelosi, citing resistance from self-described moderate Democrats, decided instead to just pass the Senate bill, no strings attached.
“We didn’t even bother to negotiate,” Ocasio-Cortez told CNN, calling the bill “completely irresponsible to the American people and to those kids on the border.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was even more critical: “A vote for Mitch McConnell’s border bill is a vote to keep kids in cages and terrorize immigrant communities.”
The Trump administration’s immigration atrocities cannot, of course, be chalked up solely to financial constraints. Its flagship immigration-deterrence policy; separating children from their parents ― was not adopted out of budgetary desperation. But under Pelosi’s guidance, the official Democratic Party response to the Trump administration abusing immigrant children is to give more money to the agencies the Trump administration relies on to abuse immigrant children.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared her devotion to the children suffering at the U.S.-Mexico border, then deferred to S
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared her devotion to the children suffering at the U.S.-Mexico border, then deferred to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on their fate. This is not how Democrats told voters they would wield power.
Whoever votes for the eventual nominee that emerges from this crowd will only help measure the current level of idiocy in the USA.
next they’ll be complaining that the filet mignon steaks they get daily aren’t Wagu beef
You would think terrorist’s would be comfortable with being terrorized.
Keep in mind with all these complaints of massive overcrowding in our detention facilities that it was leftist organization who ran ads in Honduras begging for massive waves of illegals to come here in the first place. Democrats own this completely.
Thanks MarvinStinson.
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