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House panel votes to block military construction money from going toward border wall
Washington Times ^ | 09-05-19 | David Sherfinski

Posted on 05/09/2019 12:31:28 PM PDT by Steve1999

House Democrats staked out several positions on immigration through the appropriations process on Thursday, advancing spending bills through the appropriations committee that would block President Trump from tapping military construction funds for his desired U.S.-Mexico border wall and pave the way for “Dreamers” to work on Capitol Hill. Democrats included language in a bill that funds military construction and veterans programs for 2020 that blocks any use of military construction funds from 2015-2020 from going toward border wall construction. “Whether we agree or disagree on the need for a wall or whether there is or is not a crisis at the border, I hope this committee can agree that funds for the wall should not be stolen from previously approved vital military construction projects that are to a dollar, a higher priority than any wall,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida Democrat.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: wall
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1 posted on 05/09/2019 12:31:28 PM PDT by Steve1999
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To: Steve1999

Assume it won’t get past the senate or will be vetoed?


2 posted on 05/09/2019 12:34:01 PM PDT by bhl
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To: Steve1999

Jerks. They hate the American people, if this doesn’t prove it nothing will


3 posted on 05/09/2019 12:34:35 PM PDT by McGavin999 (Border security without a wall is like having a Ring doorbell without a doorw)
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To: Steve1999

The war to save our country enters another phase.


4 posted on 05/09/2019 12:35:32 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Steve1999

Bus all the illegal aliens to each one of them idiot Dems home city, starting now.


5 posted on 05/09/2019 12:36:10 PM PDT by G. W. McLintock
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To: Steve1999
Congress is totally hopeless and a lost cause.

Either Trump figures out how to successfully address immigration issues via Executive Orders or this country is sunk.

6 posted on 05/09/2019 12:37:16 PM PDT by truthkeeper (All Trump Has Going for Him is the Votes)
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To: bhl

From last year’s CR omnibus, the President already has $1.414 trillion military funds for fiscal 2018 and 2019. Fiscal year 2019 ends Sept 2020.

This action is all for show.


7 posted on 05/09/2019 12:41:11 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: truthkeeper

Reminder. We never signed that minefields treaty.


8 posted on 05/09/2019 12:41:51 PM PDT by organicchemist (Without the second amendment, the first amendment is just talk)
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To: Steve1999
Why isn't Awan bros Debbie tannin at Gitmo?

Low hanging fruit for Barr to pluck!

9 posted on 05/09/2019 12:42:10 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: Steve1999

In other words, the Democrats have sided with Mexico and against the USA.


10 posted on 05/09/2019 12:43:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Basically yes!


11 posted on 05/09/2019 12:45:17 PM PDT by Steve1999
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“...previously approved vital military construction projects...”

Wonder if Schultzie would think these were “vital” if Trump wasn’t wanting a wall????


12 posted on 05/09/2019 12:45:39 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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Make the campaign commercials from this. Make them eat it..................


13 posted on 05/09/2019 12:47:11 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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I hope this committee can agree that funds for the wall should not be stolen from previously approved vital military construction projects that are to a dollar, a higher priority than any wall,”

No, we can't agree.

14 posted on 05/09/2019 12:53:16 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Steve1999

It is a bill. Just like you can claim anything you want to in a lawsuit, you can put any old thing into a bill. Just like a lawsuit, it doesn’t mean that you will be successful in getting what you want.


15 posted on 05/09/2019 12:53:18 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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Who needs minefields when we have a choice between quad-.50s and mini-guns, placed about every 3/4 of a mile in towers, with 10,000 rounds each?


16 posted on 05/09/2019 12:55:03 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Steve1999

The democrats have chosen to aid and abet Mexico's invading force and sacrifice U.S. sovereignty. Though we are not at war with Mexico, we are at war with terror and a number of terrorists hiding among the "mexican immigrants". Are the democrats committing treason or sedition or both?


17 posted on 05/09/2019 1:08:36 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Steve1999

Still not a crisis yet??


18 posted on 05/09/2019 1:10:42 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: so_real

Why do Democrats HATE America?


19 posted on 05/09/2019 1:13:38 PM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Steve1999

‘“Whether we agree or disagree on the need for a wall or whether there is or is not a crisis at the border, I hope this committee can agree that funds for the wall should not be stolen from previously approved vital military construction projects that are to a dollar, a higher priority than any wall’

Debbie Wheresherbrain hasn’t learned yet that you need to pull your head out of your a$$ so your brain doesn’t die.


20 posted on 05/09/2019 2:07:26 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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