Posted on 07/08/2014 10:15:25 AM PDT by PoloSec
(Reuters) - The White House asked the U.S. Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency spending on Tuesday to address a cross-border surge of children from Central America that is taxing public resources and causing a political headache for President Barack Obama.
It was Obama's most substantive response to date as he struggles to gain control of a humanitarian crisis along the Texas border with Mexico. The money would both pay to care for the children and accelerate a return to their home countries.
The funding move will test Obama's ability to negotiate effectively with Republican lawmakers who have blocked much of his agenda ahead of a November election when they hope to capture the U.S. Senate.
Obama has vowed to swiftly return to their home countries the tens of thousands of children under 18 who have flocked to the United States in recent months. Many who flee are escaping extreme poverty, gangs and drug violence.
He risks the wrath of Latino allies in the United States who are looking to him to act on his own to loosen, not strengthen, immigration rules.
Seeking to make the request more politically acceptable to lawmakers, the White House added $615 million in urgently needed money to help fight summer wildfires that have been raging in western states.
This brought the total funding request to $4.315 billion, a figure that some Republicans might find difficult to swallow without budget cuts elsewhere.
Due to leave on a Democratic Party fundraising trip to Colorado and Texas, Obama has offered to meet while in Texas with the border state's Republican governor, Rick Perry, who has criticized Obama's refusal to visit the border.
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All I would give Clown Prince nobama is a prison cell until he is old and decrepit. Then, I’d exile him.
Bet the militias heading down to the border will not need as much
Has the GOPe made any statement on the situation?
Was this written by Goebbels?
Meanwhile, our Vets are dying due to lack of proper care.
A fence was just too damned expensive ... and he created this crisis, after threatening to do this with an EO.
Tell tyrant Urkel to go pound his boyfriend! No reach-around for you, Barry!
But, of course, the Republicrats will oblige.
He plans to drop them off in a town near you, and intimidate your town to accept them, with you paying the bills.
How about 2.5 billion to load the illegal invaders on buses and drop them off at the Border?
How about $3.5 billion for machine guns in the hands of deputized patriots authorized to “shoot to kill” at the Border?
IF you put another $3.7 billion into play, Ozoomba and his cronies can siphon off many fortunes. Hillary(!) “lost” $ 6 billion as SOS and no one even investigates.
Also audit the whole mess and find out where the billions they’ve already received have gone.
Any government agency that asks for more money should be immediately audited and not one cent given until they can justify where all the money went.
Why not temporarily house them in the FEMA trailers we’ve heard so much about since Katrina?
There should not be a single Republican to support this bill...
Lol, those trailers are still around. I use an auto mechanic who had an acre or two lot for his business with a large open area. But the last time I was there the open area was covered with a hundred or more FEMA trailers. He's leasing space to FEMA and supplementing his successful business very nicely.
Someone in Congress should tell him , “Nuts.”
And then someone can be brought in to explain to Obama what it means.
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