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Graham overrides Paul’s border wall, immigration enforcement proposal
the hill ^ | June 25, 2025 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 06/25/2025 5:27:27 PM PDT by backpacker_c

Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has unveiled a plan to override Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) proposal to fund border security and immigration enforcement activities at roughly half the amount favored by Senate and House Republican leaders.

Paul created an uproar two weeks ago when he unveiled his portion of the Trump agenda megabill that would spend $6.5 billion on completing President Trump’s border wall and $22.5 billion on expanding detention facilities for migrants.

Now Graham has answered with a move of his own, unveiling a proposal to restore funding for the border wall and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the full amount envisioned by GOP leaders when they passed a blueprint for the bill earlier this year.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: alexanderbolton; bordersecurity; defunding; ice; kentucky; lindseygraham; mexico; openborder; openbordersrand; randpaul; randpaulsucks; southcarolina; thehill
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Ah ha... is this why rand paul was spreading p.r. to make it seem that Trump's megabill's a "blood bath"?

Was he trying to distract from having his push for less border security and enforcement being killed by lindsey...

If open border rand paul had his way, he'd legalize all the millions of illegal aliens that biden let in, as well as let millions more in, as long as they would claim they would be here to 'work'....

And illegally vote republicans and the right out of existance.

1 posted on 06/25/2025 5:27:27 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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I like libertarians only plenty of issues but they have a suicidal love for open borders since it lowers wages and generally don’t care about about culture.


2 posted on 06/25/2025 5:31:26 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: backpacker_c

Oh these two bustard whores are working together to do the only thing they care about ... getting reelected. Apologies to all the legit whores I’ve offended


3 posted on 06/25/2025 5:35:20 PM PDT by datricker (Go Trump/Vance!)
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To: backpacker_c

I don’t totally blame Rand. Look at who is nutjob old man is.


4 posted on 06/25/2025 5:35:31 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: backpacker_c
Before anything transpires, Paul needs to go to a real barber, and
get a man's haircut. What's the deal with the “Luigi Mangione” coif
which he favors? Very popular with old poofters on Fire Island,
a manly island. Fluff Boy.
5 posted on 06/25/2025 5:36:22 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: escapefromboston

You can’t have open borders with welfare and crime issues here.

Illegal bums just want free stuff and more free stuff.


6 posted on 06/25/2025 5:36:52 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: datricker

Damn it I meant to say bastard whores ... sorry


7 posted on 06/25/2025 5:37:09 PM PDT by datricker (Go Trump/Vance!)
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To: backpacker_c

I am sick of this POS. I heard him interviewed on the Vince podcast last week, and was appalled at his intransigent politicking. I view him no differently than McCain.

I used to like him a little bit in a very narrow sense. That is completely gone.


8 posted on 06/25/2025 5:38:07 PM PDT by rlmorel (To Leftists, Conservative Speech is Violence, while they view their Violence as Speech.)
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To: backpacker_c

And I hate having to view Lindsey Graham in any positive way, because I truly despise him.


9 posted on 06/25/2025 5:38:43 PM PDT by rlmorel (To Leftists, Conservative Speech is Violence, while they view their Violence as Speech.)
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To: backpacker_c

Rand Paul, at the time, portrayed the spending that he wanted to see cut, as being spending on the border wall and direct on the spot border patrol. If this article is correct, that apparently wasn’t true and the spending in question actually includes things like increased funding for finding, detaining and deporting illegals who are already here.


10 posted on 06/25/2025 5:39:47 PM PDT by mbrfl
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rand paul wanted big cuts in funding in both the wall, and in personnel and equipment...

1) border wall
“If you add that up for about 1,000 miles that’s $6.5 billion. They asked for $46.5 billion, so they got a math problem,” he said, according to the report.

“Where is that extra $40 billion going?” Paul asked in a post to X on Monday.

2)general funding of border patrol
In another, he wrote, “We can cut the proposed border funding in half, from $150 billion to $75 billion, and still secure our border and protect the American people.”

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/rand-paul-border-security-reconciliation-bill/2025/06/10/id/1214387/

rand paul knows what the possible 20-30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. so far are costing this country...

yet he wants more....


11 posted on 06/25/2025 6:03:25 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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“And illegally vote republicans and the right out of existance.”

Illegals have to be removed BEFORE the 2030 census.

California would lose several congressional districts to reduce states.


12 posted on 06/25/2025 6:03:58 PM PDT by TexasGator (/FDD logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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>>”rand paul knows what the possible 20-30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. so far are costing this country...

yet he wants more....”

Yep. He’s a dishonest snake, always trying to hide his true agenda.


13 posted on 06/25/2025 6:07:32 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“Fluff Boy.” LOL!
He’s sporting a fluff alternative to fluff Newscum’s greasy look.


14 posted on 06/25/2025 6:32:15 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: backpacker_c

I can’t believe it—Graham did something I agree with!


15 posted on 06/25/2025 6:33:44 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Hahaha! Yes, two sides of the same coin: Greasy and Fluff Boy.

16 posted on 06/25/2025 6:36:55 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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“Illegals have to be removed BEFORE the 2030 census.”

Correct. It’s never really been about illegal aliens voting.

It’s about apportionment. That’s really what has them soiling their panties. Take away 15,000;000 warm bodies and the Democrats lose at least ten House seats from the blue hives.

L


17 posted on 06/25/2025 6:39:28 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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>> It’s never really been about illegal aliens voting.

>> It’s about apportionment.

actually both matter - consider NYC, and the stolen CA R seats


18 posted on 06/25/2025 7:08:24 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: datricker
Yes!
Agree!
Too old Whores that spout tuff talk in front of cameras and only get worse When WE gave President Trump the Presidency!
They carry on about this or that when in power but Wimp OUT as always about budget and the other is a warmonger!
Ugh these two need a room!

they are just playing US!
So sick of Linda and Randi!

19 posted on 06/25/2025 7:38:48 PM PDT by djstex
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To: backpacker_c

Thanks for the post!


20 posted on 06/25/2025 7:39:14 PM PDT by djstex
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