The 12 Senate Republicans who voted in support of the resolution were: Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Marco Rubio of Florida, Rob Portman of Ohio, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Mitt Romney of Utah, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Jerry Moran of Kansas and Mike Lee of Utah.
Thanks for that. I did find a couple of articles about the author Ted Robbins, which cited that he was pretty loose with the facts he used in a few of his articles. That said:
I do not disagree with the fact that walls do work in certain areas. Certainly the San Diego area is one of extremely high border traffic. I has also been one of the areas where many sophisticated tunnel systems have been constructed. But my major question remains. Where is the administration and DHS planning on placing this new wall. Seems like a simple question and one that congress should be (and has been) asking. And yet there is no response. And the administration keeps failing at giving congress a fully detailed immigration plan. The last plan that they tried to get through the lame duck session of congress only included money for a wall and restrictions on asylum and cuts to legal immigration.
So I still maintain that Trump’s primary focus here is to take away the wall as a talking point.
It was February of 2019 when an ongoing invasion of America’s borders swelled to tens of thousands a month, not a shot was fired to defend the borders of the United States, and America’s domestic enemies, socialists, communists and anarchists in Congress, pushed forward with their attempt to embrace the invasion in hopes of conquering a prosperous and freedom loving people.
You guys really need to tone down the “traitor”, “traitorous” rhetoric.
I find that most people here do not even know the proper definition. And they certainly do not know that a person nowadays can not be tried for treason. To disagree with this President because we believe this is only a manufactured national emergency to fulfill a campaign promise is not betraying our country.
It was the same when many of us disagreed with G.W. Bush about going to war in Iraq. We were labeled as being un-American. When in fact, it is one of the most American things that we do.
The way he is using it is unconstitutional. All funding is suppose to originate in the House per the constitution. This funding allocation didn’t originate in the House - thus, any funds used in this way are being used contrary to the method outlined in the constitution.
I used the word traitorous, which is correct. We have an ongoing invasion at our southern border and these traitorous Republicans vote to prevent Trump from taking statutorily authorized actions to repel the invasion.
JWK
It was February of 2019 when an ongoing invasion of America’s borders swelled to tens of thousands a month, not a shot was fired to defend the borders of the United States, and America’s domestic enemies, socialists, communists and anarchists in Congress, pushed forward with their attempt to embrace the invasion in hopes of conquering a prosperous and freedom loving people.
Wait - the term “invasion” implies we are at war. Now, as we all know, it is constitutionally the role of Congress to declare war. Now, perhaps I missed it - but I haven’t seen Congress declare war or allocate funding for wartime activities. Can you provide a link to when that happened?