Doyle Alexander in Conservative Headlines
The Defense Department identified $12.8 billion that could possibly be used to fund President Trump’s border wall. In a 20-page document released Monday, the Defense Department outlined where big sums of money are currently allocated that could be diverted to fund the wall. Most of the potential wall funding would come from states that have unused military […] More
A. Michael Smith in Immigration
Early this year Senator Mike Lee said he believed that Trump’s national emergency was legal even though he disagreed with it: My initial assessment is that what Pres. Trump announced is legal. Whether or not it should be legal is a different matter. Congress has been ceding far too much power to the exec. branch […] More
President Donald Trump plans to spend about $8 billion on border barriers, far more than Congress has given him for that purpose. Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says Trump will tap various other sources of money beyond the nearly $1.4 billion in a government funding bill that Congress passed. Trump is expected […] More
When the omnibus bill designed to end the impasse over the border wall hit Congress, its appeal seemed pretty universal. The $330 billion plan sailed through the Senate with an 83-16 vote and the House by a 300-128 margin. Not only were the Wednesday votes demonstrative of bipartisan support, it also meant that if the […] More
As Democrats have avoided providing funding for walls or barriers as part of President Donald Trump’s priority effort to secure the southern border, some Republicans who support the construction of a border wall have sought out alternative means to obtain the necessary funding. Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz actually devised a rather ingenious plan last […] More
Doyle Alexander in Conservative Headlines
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is “looking over all aspects” of the border security deal dreamed up by a bipartisan congressional committee to avoid another partial government shutdown. The deal in question reportedly contains $1.375 billion in funding for a physical border barrier, well short of Trump’s requested $5.7 billion, and institutes a cap of […] More
Doyle Alexander in Conservative Headlines
At the end of his show on Monday, as President Donald Trump was delivering a speech in El Paso, TX, Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity voiced his disapproval for the reported $1.3 billion deal reached by lawmakers. Hannity called the deal a “garbage compromise” and warned Republicans they would have to answer for the deal. “By the […] More
During a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) urged President Trump to sign the agreement reached by the immigration conference committee. Schumer said, “I urge President Trump to sign this agreement. We must not have a rerun of what happened a few months back, where legislators, Democrat and […] More
A Republican-Democrat House and Senate committee is planning to offer President Trump a border security package that could include less than a quarter of the $5.7 billion for a U.S.-Mexico border wall he originally requested. Capitol Hill sources tell the media that a conference committee of Republicans and Democrats is preparing to unveil a border security funding […] More
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency to build a wall on the U.S. Mexico border would be a “terrible idea” and that he would fight it. Partial transcript as follows: TODD: You have said you are opposed to the national emergency option. In […] More
On Thursday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) delivered a speech in which he exposed the political nature of the Democratic Party’s refusal to fund the southern border wall. First, Cruz stated that many Senate Democrats had previously voted for “350 miles of border wall” that some are now calling immoral: So, let’s go over some of […] More
The general media consensus is that President Donald Trump “lost” the showdown with Democrats over the wall because of the fact that he reopened the government until Feb. 15. Take the first paragraph of a New York Times story, which strongly intimated the president would face a primary challenge: “President Trump’s defeat in his border-wall standoff with […] More
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