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House Oversight Chair James Comer Denies Democrats Taxpayer Funds to Visit MS-13 Gang Member in El Salvador: ‘Spend Your Own Money’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Apr. 19, 2025 | Ben Kew

Posted on 04/19/2025 8:59:41 AM PDT by bitt

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer slammed Democrats for requesting taxpayer-funded travel to El Salvador to visit a deported illegal alien with alleged ties to the MS-13 gang.

In a letter shared on X, Comer informed Democratic Reps. Robert Garcia of California and Maxwell Alejandro Frost of Florida that if they wish to meet with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, they’ll have to pay for the trip themselves.

He wrote:

It is absurd that you both displayed active hostility for over two years toward the Committee’s oversight of the Biden Border Crisis and the consequences of millions of illegal aliens entering the country, yet now, you are seeking travel at Committee expense to meet with foreign gang members.

You may be pleased to know that a Democrat Senator, Chris Van Hollen, was photographed just yesterday in El Salvador enjoying margaritas garnished with cherry slices with the foreign gang member your letter references.

If you also wish to meet with him, you can spend your own money. But I will not approve a single dime of taxpayer funds for use on the excursion you have requested.

The request came less than 24 hours after Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador to meet with Abrego Garcia and lobby for his return to the United States.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: comer; elsalvador
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1 posted on 04/19/2025 8:59:41 AM PDT by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

wait for it - a lawsuit is coming in 3-2-1...


2 posted on 04/19/2025 9:00:33 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Not one dime of American Tax Payer $$$ towards any travel for these criminal invader supporters!


3 posted on 04/19/2025 9:02:42 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: bitt

Hey Dems: Put your money where your mouth is!


4 posted on 04/19/2025 9:04:41 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodnes.)
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To: bitt
Lawsuit?!?

Some lefty judge will say “we don’t need no steenking lawsuit!”

5 posted on 04/19/2025 9:06:36 AM PDT by daler
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To: bitt

Ask Why

Why do Democrats need MS-13 so badly?

What is the connection?


6 posted on 04/19/2025 9:11:01 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: bitt

They’re so stupid: boys and girls, this is not the sob story poster boy you’re looking for, and the media can’t convert Maryland Man into a sympathetic figure; it’s too have a lift for this wife beater gang banger. . There’ll be other sob stories. Don’t be so lazy - go find one


7 posted on 04/19/2025 9:13:32 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: bitt

or a judge demanding they be paid


8 posted on 04/19/2025 9:13:50 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: bitt

Love it


9 posted on 04/19/2025 9:13:50 AM PDT by blueyon (God, is who we need)
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To: bitt
Following Trump's confidence and clear understanding that it's completely useless to "try to get along" with Democrat/Communists (i.e., the sworn enemies of our Constitutional Republic), it appears that at least some members of the GOP are beginning to sprout cajones.
Well, it is about damn time and it is the growing season. Let's hope this trend continues ... and builds upon itself.

(Oh, by the way: Pammy dear, where the hell are the Epstein files you promised to release several months ago, huh?)

10 posted on 04/19/2025 9:17:11 AM PDT by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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To: bitt

The Democrats may be short a lot of things, but gall isn’t one of them.


11 posted on 04/19/2025 9:20:34 AM PDT by Orosius (A“Wake America Up Again )
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To: bitt

Party on your own time.

They should be in DC working. But then again, it might be a good thing they aren’t “working.”


12 posted on 04/19/2025 9:34:47 AM PDT by bgill
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“Bu..buh...but...it’s ALL our money!!!”


13 posted on 04/19/2025 9:34:52 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: bitt

Fair enough.....


14 posted on 04/19/2025 9:36:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: bitt
House Oversight Chair James Comer Denies Democrats Taxpayer Funds
to Visit MS-13 Gang Member in El Salvador: ‘Spend Your Own Money’

They can cajole boss hogg for the greenbacks.

15 posted on 04/19/2025 9:37:20 AM PDT by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: bitt

So now we are going to get the obscene spectacle of a parade of rats with the slobbering MSM in tow headed down to visit the “Maryland Father”. ugh I just despise these wretched people.


16 posted on 04/19/2025 9:38:43 AM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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My thoughts exactly.


17 posted on 04/19/2025 9:40:53 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: bitt
If due process before a federal judge must take place to migrate to America before any status is granted, then the number of migrants must be limited to the number of cases federal judges can hear. If that's 1,000 cases in a month, that's only 12,000 migrants, not 1,200,000.

That would require 100 years. Numbers don't lie. Use the math to show the intent.

18 posted on 04/19/2025 9:41:32 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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What democrats need to do to prevent Trump from deporting MS-13 and Tren De Aragua members is to...

Put a democrat guard or a democrat congress-member in each of the gang members’ homes and to block ICE from arresting them and deporting them. But, they have to use their own money for the guarding of the gang members.

So, if the democrats want those people to not be deported, they need to be proactive and then keep those future democrats ‘safe’ from the arm of the law. That way they won’t have to ask that their future trips to the gang members’ home countries be funded.


19 posted on 04/19/2025 9:41:38 AM PDT by adorno ( )
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Garcia is just plain awful. He was a do-nothing mayor of Long Beach before he graduated to the next level of grift, the Congress.
As mayor, he reportedly ordered the police to stand down in 2020 as the anarchists burned down part of the city.
He was a darling of the left due to his gay ‘marriage’ but thoroughly incompetent otherwise.


20 posted on 04/19/2025 9:42:08 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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