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Last Friday, Jim Robb at NumbersUSA reported on the Omnibus spending bill that sold conservative voters down the river:
This week, Congress pushed through a horrible Omnibus spending bill to fund the
government through next September.
The bill amounts to a betrayal of
American voters, especially on immigration matters.
Where do I begin to condemn this? I'll
start with House Speaker Paul Ryan.
It didn't take long for Ryan to break
all his promises on immigration, did it?
When he was running for Speaker two
months ago, Ryan promised he would not bring up immigration bills that did not
have the backing of a majority of Republican House Members.
Yet as soon as he got the chance, Ryan snuck several huge immigration giveaways
into the Omnibus spending bill Congress approved today. It goes further:
Nearly QUADRUPLES the number of H-2B low-skilled foreign workers allowed
in this year. This could raise the total of these workers this year from 66,000
to 264,000.
Not only that...
FUNDS a large
increase in Syrian and other refugee resettlement in this country. Instead of a timeout and a full security review, Congress handed
Obama everything he wants.
FUNDS Obama's catch-and-release policy that virtually stops deportations.
FUNDS
Sanctuary Cities, so that cities like San Francisco that
refuse to turn over jailed illegal aliens to the feds will face no cut in
funding.
MAINTAINS tax
credits to illegal aliens in the form of the Earned Income Tax
Credit. That is, if a family is poor enough, they not only pay no income tax,
the government pays THEM. Yes, that includes illegal aliens! Also, Congress
continues to allow illegal aliens to claim child tax credits on their tax
returns.
FUNDS the
continued relocation into America of the unaccompanied minors who are marching across the border into Texas and states. The
numbers of these crossing the border is way up again this year.
Even with all these outrages I've
mentioned, there are still MORE terrible things hidden in the Omnibus bill,
which passed both the House and the Senate. A hopeful sign is that 95 House Republicans joined with 18 House
Democrats, and 26 Senate Republicans joined with 6 Senate Democrats to vote NO
on this monstrosity. Yet, most Republicans and most all the Democrats
voted yes, and it passed.
Voting YEA on this
irresponsible bill were Rep. Marcia Fudge, Sen. Sherrod Brown, and House
Republicans from Ohio Steve Chabot, Brad Wenstrup, Bill Johnson, Michael
Turner, Pat Tiberi, Tim Ryan, David Joyce, Steve Stivers, and James Renacci.
Rob Portman, Ted Cruz,
and Rand Paul voted against the bill. Marco Rubio did not cast a vote. Also disappointing
were Congressional freshmen who ran on conservative values and then voted for this “monstrosity,”
such as Mia Love and Martha McSally.
As Conservative Treehouse concluded,
the Omnibus
Spending and Tax Provision bills, used by Republicans in lieu of an actual
Fiscal Year 2016 budget . . . passed. . . .
Summary: [conservative
voters] gave Republicans large majorities in both the House and Senate so they
could push-back against ridiculous progressive big government
spending. What did the REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP do with the
majority? Republicans constructed big spending on behalf of the
Democrats and voted with them to end up with the same result if Democrats
were in control.
….THAT IS A UniParty !!
This blog will be
taking a close look at the UniParty as we head into next year.
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