Federal Spending Bills will be
“Dead On Arrival”. The Senate will not approve House Spending proposals and
Trump won’t sign them. The Obama administration operated without a budget and
Trump can do this too.
Democrat Spending Bill Offers $12
Billion More for Foreign Aid, $0 for Border Wall, by Rebecca Mansour, 1/3/19,
Breitbart.
The spending bills proposed by
House Democrats to end the partial government shutdown offer no funding for a
U.S.-Mexico border wall, but provide over $12 billion more in foreign aid than
the Trump administration requested, according to a statement on Thursday from
the White House Office of Management and Budget.
The statement warned the
new House Democrat majority of President Trump’s intention to veto the bills, noting that the
administration “cannot accept legislation that provides unnecessary funding for
wasteful programs while ignoring the Nation’s urgent border security needs.”
The statement reiterated President Trump’s request for “at
least $5 billion for border security” and asserted that the Democrats’ proposal
“does not come close to providing these necessary investments and authorities.”
The White House then
highlighted the billions in funding the Democrats are offering for “unnecessary
programs at excessive levels” beyond what the Trump administration requested,
including:
$12 billion more for
“international affairs programs,” including $2.9 billion more “for economic and
development assistance, including funding for the West Bank/Gaza, Syria, and
Pakistan, where our foreign aid is either frozen or under review.”
$700 million more than
requested for the United Nations, including restored funding for the United
Nation’s Population Fund, which would undermine the administration’s Mexico
City Policy that bars the use of taxpayer dollars for foreign organizations
that “promote or perform abortions.”
Approximately $2
billion more than requested for the Environmental Protection Agency
$7.1 billion more than
the administration requested for Housing and Urban Development programs
The statement’s full
passage regarding the Democrats’ additional funding reads:
The six bills provided
for under H.R. 21 provide funding at levels nearly 20 percent higher than the
President’s FY 2019 Budget.
For instance, H.R. 21
provides $12 billion more for international affairs programs, 29 percent higher
than the President’s request. This includes $2.9 billion more than the request
for economic and development assistance, including funding for the West
Bank/Gaza, Syria, and Pakistan, where our foreign aid is either frozen or under
review.
It includes $700 million
more than requested for the United Nations, including restoring funding for the
United Nations Population Fund. The bill would also undermine the President’s
Mexico City Policy (Presidential Memorandum of January 23, 2017), which
prohibits the funding of foreign nongovernmental organizations that promote or
perform abortions.
Further, H.R. 21
includes approximately $2 billion in excessive Environmental Protection Agency funding, providing funds
beyond the Agency’s core mission and including funding for programs that can
and should be executed at the local level.
The bill also includes
substantial unrequested funding for HUD programs, including $7.1 billion above
the FY 2019 Budget request for HUD rental assistance programs. These and other
excessive spending items makes the lack of adequate
border funding in the combined package all the more unacceptable.
“The administration
looks forward to working with the Congress to enact appropriations that will
adequately secure the Nation’s borders and get the federal government back to
work for the American people as soon as possible,” the statement concluded.
Update: The
Democrat spending bills passed the House on Thursday night. The first bill, a
continuing resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security until
February 8, passed by 239-192. The bill would “keep border security funding at
$1.3 billion, providing no new funding for the barrier along the southern
border,” the Hill reports. The second bill to fund the other six
agencies through September passed by 241-190.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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