You should’ve given that advice to Tim Scott when Trump was Prez and the GOP ran the Senate.
Posted on 04/27/2023 9:15:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott introduced legislation Wednesday that would redirect $15 billion that was meant to help pay for 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees and spend it on security measures along the southern border instead.
The Daily Caller first obtained the legislation, which is titled the Securing Our Border Act. The bill would specifically fund border inspections to better equip law enforcement to track down drugs and other illegal items or substances before they enter the United States. The bill would also fund border wall construction and other technologies to help with tracking and enforcement efforts along the southwest border.
Additionally, the legislation would give retention bonuses to Border Patrol agents and end the “catch and release” policy.
Republicans have expressed particular concern about the more than $80 billion in new funding for the IRS. Although Democrats claim the increased funding will boost revenue and enable Congress to pay down the federal debt, GOP officials argue that middle-class and poor Americans will face more audits. The funding allows the agency to hire up to 87,000 new employees.
“We have a crisis on our southern border. Rather than putting resources in place to address this major national security and humanitarian catastrophe, the Biden administration and congressional Democrats chose instead to spend $45 billion of taxpayer money to hire an army of IRS agents to audit the middle class,” Scott told the Caller before introducing the bill.
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The bill has five original cosponsors —Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Steve Daines of Montana, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, and James Lankford of Oklahoma — and has been endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council, a group representing 18,000 Border Patrol agents.
And will sadly go nowhere in the Senate.
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He’s a RINO.
Getting ready to announce.
Those sponsors KNOW that the bill is going NOWHERE!
>> Those sponsors KNOW that the bill is going NOWHERE!
But it’s great political theater.
Tim Scott is not presidential material. He needs to stay in SC and finish the job there.
When they get power, Republicans get all weak, apologetic, and bipartisan.
These RINO’s are so brave when they KNOW the damn bill is going NOWHERE!! Utter SCUM on our side of the isle where the hell were these bills when Trump was fighting tooth and nail for his border wall, when WE HAD a majority in both houses HEY TIM, STFU, you are not fooling ANYONE!!!
bttt
If they were serious this would have been part of the debt limit negotiations.. low hanging fruit.. but it wasn’t.. just a feint.. and not serious at that..
Tim Scott will go the way of Michael Steele(Md.).
Just fewer delivered bitch slaps.
Stop eating your own. Only cannibals do that. Republicans are already minority in senate. You want to expand democrat party more?
Jumping up & down shouting: “Look at me! Look at me!”
Sort of like self-aggrandizing campaign rallies or incessantly posting comments on twitter or alternative social media sites. Look at me, indeed.
Always has been. This is kabuki theater. A constitutional legislator would have never let them have the money… And that leaves too much money for the IRS to detain Americans just like J6.
“Failures” will help to shine a bright light on Presidential issues.
“If they were serious this would have been part of the debt limit negotiations.”
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I thought that was what they were going to do. As usual, just talk. They count on us forgetting.
And talk is cheap.
They don’t need to count on us forgetting when the people calling their shots can steal elections at will.
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