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Paul Bedard at Washington Examiner has some good news: the budget
including the $1.5 billion for border security is better than the mainstream
media has been telling you:
Republicans are pushing back on
reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., beat President Trump in the
latest budget shutdown fight, claiming that Congress approved historic funding
levels for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, added miles
to the border wall, and erased the cap on criminal illegal immigrants that can
be jailed.
. . .
What’s more, Trump and GOP
negotiators led by Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and his team blocked several
moves by Pelosi and other Democrats to fill the deal with anti-wall moves like
lowering spending for ICE and slashing the number of “detention beds” to hold
criminal illegal immigrants.
“Pelosi lost. She knew her position
on detentions beds was unsustainable and only playing to her fringe. She also
said no new miles for the wall,” said the source. “She had to step back from
all positions.”
Read the rest here. (H/T Don Surber)
UPDATE 5pm: Rush Limbaugh via Fox News disagrees:
Conservative talk radio host Rush
Limbaugh, speaking to "Fox News Sunday," charged that the compromise spending bill recently signed by President
Trump to avert another partial government shutdown was little more than a
disguised effort by some Republicans to torpedo his 2020 presidential
candidacy.
"Both parties have people that
are still trying to get rid of Donald Trump," Limbaugh said, asserting
that Democrats are also working to guarantee a "permanent underclass of
voters" who are "uneducated" and "don't even speak"
English.
He continued: "I read this
bill -- this spending bill, this bill is outrageous. [It includes] welcoming
centers for newly arriving illegal aliens, and all kinds of medical care"
-- a reference to the allocation of $192,700,000 in the bill's conference
agreement to enhance medical care and transportation for illegal
immigrants in U.S. custody, including to shelters run by nonprofits.
"The purpose of this bill, I
think, was eventually to be used by the Democrats and some Republicans to tell
the American people, 'See, electing President Trump was pointless, worthless,
he can't protect you, he can't stop us, he can't do what he said he was going
to do, because we hate him so much we're not going to allow him to do it
-- that's what this bill is," Limbaugh said.
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