Posted on 12/22/2022 6:31:52 AM PST by george76
The more than 4,000-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill prohibits funds for U.S. border security but it provides funding for border security in foreign nations.
Democrats need at least 10 votes from GOP senators to pass the legislation, which was unveiled on Tuesday. Congressional leaders are rushing to pass it before the Christmas break.
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy opposes the bill, arguing that Congress should pass a funding bill that expires in January, allowing the new Congress to negotiate its own package.
North Carolina Republican Rep. Dan Bishop and his staff combed through the legislation all day Tuesday and identified some of the earmarks and controversial spending provisions in the full text.
Among Bishop's findings was language that prohibits U.S. Customs and Border Protection from using its $1.5 billion in funding to "acquire, maintain or extend border security technology and capabilities, except for technology and capabilities to improve Border Patrol processing."
"It expressly prohibits CBP funding from being used to improve border security," Bishop tweeted.
"... but at the same time, allocates $410 million towards border security for Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman," he continued in a follow-up tweet. "America Last in action."
Reacting to Bishop's findings, Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott posted on Twitter: "How can any Republican justify voting for this?"
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, was asked for his reaction to the border security language in the omnibus bill.
"I'm absolutely, just, disgusted that even the Republicans, some Republicans, are willing to throw the American people under the bus, that they're not willing to provide border security," he said on the Just the News Not Noise TV program. "If you look at the omnibus, it specifically says that they can't provide money to actual border security measures. All it does is it's going to process people through the system quicker and when we process people quicker, that just encourages more people to cross our borders illegally. That's wrong."
Every single one of those POSs that voted for this, regardless of what wing of the UniParty they’re in, is a full-blown traitor to the People of the USA, and thus should suffer the consequences of such.
WTF...Bidden is killing the USA and Americas way of life...Damn you demoRats.....
Truly disgusting.
21 Republican Senators voted for this…21.
“..21 Republican Senators voted for this…21....”
21 traitorous UniParty hacks that could care less about the USA and her People.
We know that all democrat party voters are the enemy and the root cause of all this chaos.
Who is responsible for that provision?
Probably Mitch
The spending is a cover for the elections related items.
Deep State is codifying The Steal.
Its called globalism
Yuma AZ and Laredo TX are NOT the deep-state’s borders!
"$1.7T omnibus bill funds border security in foreign nations, but prohibits it in US"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Regarding the title of referenced article, there is no accountability for mostly unconstitutional federal spending imo, just media excuses front-ending how Democrats and RINOs are getting away with stealing state revenues and taxpayer wallets imo.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Deparate Democrats are allegedly hiding unconstitutional taxpayer dollars from GOP so that only Democrats ultimately have the Constitution's "power of the purse" imo.
TRILLION DOLLAR OMNIBUS IS PURPOSED TO WEAKEN THE GOP HOUSE (12.20.22)
In the meanwhile, ALL the states need to effectively "secede" from the unconstitutionally big federal government by repealing the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular vote for federal senators) Amendments so that desperate Democrats cannot add to their stolen taxpayer dollars when they're in power again.
It has become clear that we, the American people, are on our own. Our reps are mostly globalist and we are in their way. Time to dust of the DofI.
I actually think they couldn't care less.
Here’s hoping this whole POS Omnibus blows up to Kingdom Come, that time runs out on the evil DemonRats to pass this bill this year, in this session.
Americans Last.
If this doesn’t announce where we are as a country, nothing does.
Mind boggling and I think must be corruption.
We are so banana republic today.
It does not just not mention US safety.. It prohibits it
Mercy.. That solidifies why the border is open.
I don’t understand.. the whole congress doesn’t care if this nation becomes world owned and controlled?
They serve themselves... People are a bother
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