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 ...
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.
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.
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
I don’t totally blame Rand. Look at who is nutjob old man is.
You can’t have open borders with welfare and crime issues here.
Illegal bums just want free stuff and more free stuff.
Damn it I meant to say bastard whores ... sorry
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.
And I hate having to view Lindsey Graham in any positive way, because I truly despise him.
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.
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.”
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....
“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.
>>”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.
“Fluff Boy.” LOL!
He’s sporting a fluff alternative to fluff Newscum’s greasy look.
I can’t believe it—Graham did something I agree with!
“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.
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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
they are just playing US!
So sick of Linda and Randi!
Thanks for the post!
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