Spending bill language omits border wall funding, sanctuary cities crackdown

[libertybele]

Even with a GOP majority, Schumer and Pelosi are still in control and it appears that so far the RINO's and DEMS who vowed to ensure that Trump's presidency will be a failure are winning and wining bigly.  There won't be a wall.  Sanctuary cities will still be allowed.  Bammycare is not going to be repealed. Immigrants from areas of known terrorism are still coming into the country and the leadership in both Houses hasn't changed. One promise that Trump did follow through with was placing a conservative justice on SCOTUS and for that I thank Senator Cruz.

Meanwhile, immigrants and unions are marching against President Trump. 

Spending bill language omits border wall funding, sanctuary cities crackdown

Republican and Democratic lawmakers forged a $1.07 trillion spending package that would fund the government through the end of September, but does not include some of President Trump’s cornerstone promises including funding for a border wall or funding cuts to sanctuary cities.

The proposed legislation has no funding for Trump’s promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but does set aside $1.5 billion for border security measures such as additional detention beds. It does give Trump a $12.5 billion down payment on his request to strengthen the military, a figure which could rise to $15 billion should Trump present Congress with a plan for fighting the Islamic State terror group. The proposed $15 billion amounts to half of Trump's original $30 billion request.

Trump said at nearly every campaign stop last year that Mexico would pay for the proposed 2,000-mile border wall, a claim Mexican leaders have broadly rejected. The White House sought nearly $1.4 billion in taxpayer dollars for the wall and related costs in the spending bill, but Trump later relented and said the issue could wait until September.

With language about the border wall omitted, Democratic leaders praised the effort.

"The bill ensures taxpayer dollars aren't used to fund an ineffective border wall, excludes poison pill riders, and increases investments in programs that the middle class relies on, like medical research, education and infrastructure,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., echoed Schumer’s praise, saying in a separate statement “the omnibus does not fund President Trump's immoral and unwise border wall or create a cruel new deportation force.”.......

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/immigrants-unions-march-us-rights-042429619.html

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/01/spending-bill-language-omits-border-wall-funding-sanctuary-cities-crackdown.html

[txradioguy]

[corbe]

   Not trying to Hijack your thread @libertybele but this travesty continues and we (Taxpayers) are funding it in this new CR
   Someone should ping Tom


10 Reasons Congress Should Defund Planned Parenthood, From Women Who Have Been There

While the abortion giant claims to have women’s best interests at heart, countless numbers of us who have suffered the adverse effects of abortion know that’s anything but true.


By Theresa Bonopartis
May 1, 2017

On April 29, protesters took to the streets across the country to call for Congress to finally fulfill Republican leaders’ promises to end taxpayers’ sponsorship of Planned Parenthood, our nation’s largest abortion provider.

Sadly, in the debate between pro-lifers and pro-aborts, certain voices are often ignored. This includes the women who have experienced abortion and were deceived by organizations like Planned Parenthood, which have a vested interest in downplaying or denying the effects abortion can have on women’s lives.

While the abortion giant claims to have women’s best interests at heart, countless numbers of us who have suffered the adverse effects of abortion know that’s anything but true. While the organization’s brass promote themselves as health-care providers and advocates of poor women, a little research reveals the people running the show aren’t the champions they claim to be.

In fact, they’re doing quite well for themselves as taxpayers watch their hard-earned dollars support their organization, which delivers more than 300,000 abortions each year. In 2014, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards earned $957,952, according to Internal Revenue Service records, while the organization received $528 million in government funding the same year.

It’s no wonder the organization is keen to cling to its carefully constructed public image as a women’s health-care provider despite disturbing revelations over the past few years, including allegations that Planned Parenthood harvests the organs of aborted babies, or the fact that the organization does not provide mammograms. Deception has served Planned Parenthood well. Styling itself as a one-stop shop for women’s health care, the organization enjoys the support of countless donors who remain unaware of what goes on behind the nonprofit’s closed doors.

It is hard to listen to all the rhetoric surrounding Planned Parenthood when you have been a statistic of abortion’s damage and the organization’s leaders downplay or deny the very real experiences of millions of women. Most women don’t feel comfortable speaking about their abortion experiences, but as more and more of us reach healing, that’s changing. On behalf of those women, here are 10 reasons why Planned Parenthood should be defunded.

10. Planned Parenthood Doesn’t Care for Post-Abortive Women

Because it denies the reality of abortion’s effects on mental health, Planned Parenthood does not provide follow-up care for women who have had abortions.

“Planned Parenthood doesn’t provide any after abortion counseling [and] they don’t provide real choices,” says Nancy, from New York.

9. Planned Parenthood Overlooks Statutory Rape

As investigations over the years have revealed, Planned Parenthood’s de facto policy is to ignore statutory rape laws when admitting underage patients.

“The fact is that they cover up the abuse of minors by abetting the sex trafficking of minor girls,” says Clarissa, from Ohio.

8. Planned Parenthood Uses Women

“For me, Planned Parenthood was the clinic where my pregnancy was confirmed in July of 1972 as there were no home pregnancy tests at the time. It was there that I was told the first of many lies… [Such as identifying the developing baby as a] ‘Glob of cell and tissue.’ (I was 12 weeks pregnant.) Second, I was told it would be a simple surgical procedure. It was not…there would be no after effects and there was no discussion of any other alternative, [including] having the baby or adoption.”

“They also told me to lie as I was only just 17 and the law was 18 in New York. It was later on that I came to find out that they were in an intentional partnership with the clinics in New York to deceive young women into having abortions as a safe and easy solution to the ‘problem of a pregnancy.’ This was part of the agenda to push for legalization on a national level…These abortions were not back alley. They were being done in hospitals and of course clinics like CRASH.”

“There was not only deceit…but we were being used on so many levels for the purpose of an agenda…as we believed the lies and then had to deal with the aftermath of the death of our children. We were also left with no support or follow up…only birth control pills which became another way we could be used. I continued to go to the Planned Parenthood clinic to get my pills. No one ever even asked me about my abortion and how I was doing,” says Mary, in New Jersey.

7. Employees Speak of Pregnancy as a ‘Problem’ to ‘Fix’

“They are not very helpful in planning happy parenthood. Just the painful. I am the mother of deceased children.”

“Further, as I volunteered recently at a pregnancy center I talked to women who came to us for an ultrasound after they visited Planned Parenthood. They were shocked when they saw their babies’ development. They reported that workers at Planned Parenthood said: ‘You should take care of this soon before it turns into something.’ In other words, they are still lying to women about fetal development, which is a truth of medical science! Why should my tax dollars pay for that? Real doctors don’t have to lie so they can profit from the services they provide,” says Eileen, in Michigan.

6. Planned Parenthood Ignores Women’s Testimony of Post-Abortive Suffering

Because admitting abortion can cause emotional and mental trauma would damage the narrative that abortion is simply a minor procedure, Planned Parenthood ignores the stories of women who have suffered after their abortions.

“After my two abortions by 1982, I was emotionally spent and quit my ‘dream TV career’ to go back home to the D.C. area to be near family. I desperately needed security. How many young women QUIT their own TV show? [It] proves I was broken and didn’t know just how much those abortions affected me. I just didn’t understand why I was so depressed, [why I engaged in] drug and alcohol abuse, major promiscuity, etc…I was a textbook case of self-sabotaging and destructive behaviors. Anything to dull the pain…but didn’t connect the dots.”

“They never once told me about the aftermath of what I’d feel or how the abortions would affect me mentally, spiritually, and physically,” says Leslie in Virginia.

5. Planned Parenthood Preys on Women’s Defensiveness About Abortion

Planned Parenthood deceives women encouraging their support, knowing that they need to justify their abortion decisions.

“For years in the 1990’s while raising my kids up to their high school years, I was a militant pro choicer and major advocate for PP (to validate MY poor choices), I was an angry voice for a woman’s right to choose… ‘my body, my choice.’ I lobbied lawmakers to get out of my bedroom. I was a misguided, angry woman, like so many I see today.

“Planned Parenthood lies, and cheats women, families, and our tax dollars. They buy politicians to do their bidding. (Look at the DNC National platform!!!) I’ve studied their propaganda and deception, the history of Margaret Sanger, Nathanson, NARAL, NOW, etc.,” writes LB.

4. Planned Parenthood Ignores Abortion Coercion

Planned Parenthood ignores the fact that many women and teenage girls are coerced into having abortions by their parents, husbands, boyfriends, and others who have power over women.

“I was a seventeen year old kid when I had my abortion which was coerced by my father. I was in my 4th month of pregnancy because I had hidden it for so long. No one told me the development of my baby or anything about the procedure I was about to undergo. “

“For countless women abortion is not a free choice or between them and their doctor, it happens because of coercion by parents, boyfriends and husbands, but Planned Parenthood does nothing to stop that, all they care about is the money,” says Theresa in New York.

3. To Planned Parenthood, ‘Choice’ Means Abortion

“The entire premise of the Planned Parenthood organization is that they stand behind ‘a woman’s right to choose.’ This is a complete lie. From the moment I walked into PP prior to my abortion, it was as if it was already understood that abortion was the ONLY choice and actually, the best way to handle my ‘situation.’ My ‘situation’ was a precious life growing inside of me and I was scared to death. At no point was I counseled in terms of future emotional, mental and psychological affects this abortion would have on my life. It was simply put to me that ‘more women than you could imagine have abortions’ – I never wanted to be in that category.”

“I take full responsibility for my abortion; however being read off statistics of the prevalence of abortion in our culture was in no way comforting to me at this time. The term counseling usually comes with a positive, healing connotation. This was the complete opposite. Never once did the counselor or doctor broach the discussion of ‘would you like to keep your baby?’ It was as if it were just understood that this abortion was happening,” writes BT from New York.

2. Planned Parenthood Fights Oversight and Informed Consent

Planned Parenthood fights every attempt at regulations, protection, and the informed consent of women, leaving them uninformed and in danger.

It opposes Women’s Right to Know legislation, which would provide information on all the dangers of abortion and fetal development. Planned Parenthood is against parent consent to medical procedures done on minors. Your child cannot get an aspirin at school without parental consent, but in many states can go for a life-altering procedure like abortion without parental consent.

Planned Parenthood fights regulations on abortion clinics, leaving their safety requirements far less than those on any other surgical clinics.

1. Women Have Died Because of Planned Parenthood

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 http://thefederalist.com/2017/05/01/10-reasons-congress-defund-planned-parenthood-women/

[mystery-ak]

.....and it continues to fund PP.....



http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/05/01/freedom-caucus-rep-jim-jordan-think-youre-going-see-lot-conservatives-spending-plan/
Freedom Caucus Rep Jim Jordan: I Think You’re Going to See a Lot of Conservatives Be Against the Spending Plan


damn right I am...seems Schumer got all that he wanted

[libertybele]

Exactly. I (and many others) were correct; Trump was merely a siphon for the DEMS.

[Free Vulcan]

It seems now to get anything done we must actually have the Presidency and a  2/3 majority in both houses of Congress, and 6 or 7 of 9 conservative justices on SCOTUS.

We are literally at the last chance. If they can't get the ship righted all that's left is to go Galt, because in the next recession our debt is going to eat us alive if we don't.

[corbe]

Mon May 1, 2017 | 11:53am EDT

Federal spending plan reimburses New York City for Trump security
 
By Hilary Russ | NEW YORK

A federal spending agreement reached late on Sunday will reimburse New York City for money spent securing U.S. President Donald Trump and his family at Trump Tower in Manhattan.

Altogether, New York City and other state and local governments that have hosted the president would receive $61 million in the latest federal budget deal.

Officials in Florida's Palm Beach County, home to Trump's private club Mar-a-Lago, have also asked for help in paying security costs.

"We are getting what we are owed," Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement on Monday. "That's good news for our city and the hardworking police officers faced with this unprecedented security challenge."

He and Police Commissioner James O'Neill worked for several months with New York's congressional delegation to have the funds included in the deal, he said.
 
Congress is expected to approve the legislation by the end of the week.

The deal includes $20 million for costs incurred between Election Day in November and Inauguration Day in January, as well as $41 million after Trump was sworn in.

The funding, which must be shared with other local governments, is on top of the $7 million allocated last fall.
 
The city spends on average $127,000 to $146,000 a day for the New York Police Department to protect First Lady Melania Trump and the couple's young son when President Trump is not in town.

Those costs are expected to swell to a daily average of $308,000 when Trump is in the city, the mayor's office said.

Their home atop the 58-story skyscraper on Fifth Avenue near Central Park is the site of regular protests and is in an area popular with tourists.

When outlining his $84.9 billion executive city budget for fiscal 2018 on Wednesday, de Blasio said the city normally handles occasional visits from Presidents, but not ongoing costs to keep the First Family secure in Trump Tower.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget-new-york-idUSKBN17X1Y5

[mystery-ak]

Boy is Rush mad!!!

*What's the point of voting Republican*....

[SirLinksALot]

Let's see what we got under this Republican controlled Congress:

1) No funding for the Wall

2) Sanctuary Cities still get their money

3) Planned Parenthood remains fully funded

4) Puerto Rico gets more Medicaid funding.

Tell me why we vote Republican again?

[corbe]

Let's see what we got under this Republican controlled Congress:

1) No funding for the Wall

2) Sanctuary Cities still get their money

3) Planned Parenthood remains fully funded

4) Puerto Rico gets rescued.

Tell me why we vote Republican again?

   BINARY (the way I learned it) is the presence or non presence of Electricity in a Magnetic Field. To some here it means either Hillary or Trump, my Education was wasted (OK maybe I was wasted when I attended).

[Night Hides Not]

Let's see what we got under this Republican controlled Congress:

1) No funding for the Wall

2) sanctuary Cities still get their money

3) Planned Parenthood remains fully funded

Tell me why we vote Republican again?

It's been 35+ years since I departed Germany, and I've probably forgotten 95+% of the German I learned there. However, I've never forgotten "Das ist eine Gute frage!"

"That's a good question."

BTW, I wasn't fluent, but I was proficient enough to not needing an interpreter during a TDY assignment (though one was assigned to me), and I convinced my neighbors why Reagan would be better than Carter, though that took a couple of months. They didn't give in until Inauguration Day, when Iran released the hostages.

[SirLinksALot]

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan enjoys a good laugh as Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer hammers the last nail in the coffin of President Trump's 2017 budget proposals.

[SirLinksALot]

And oh yeah,  despite all the talk, I notice that the NPR, the national Endowment for the Arts and Humanities are still alive....

[Hondo69]

Let's see what we got under this Republican controlled Congress:

1) No funding for the Wall

2) Sanctuary Cities still get their money

3) Planned Parenthood remains fully funded

4) Puerto Rico gets more Medicaid funding.

Tell me why we vote Republican again?

I didn't leave the Republican party, the Republican party left me.

[mystery-ak]

I didn't leave the Republican party, the Republican party left me.

yep

[libertybele]

There should not be any doubt whatsoever how the next 3 years, 8 months and 20 days are going to go under Trump.

[Hondo69]

I can count on two hands the number of people in Washington who are not Sopranocrats.

We all know how Tony Soprano operated.  He'd send his thugs around to the mom and pop grocery store to tell them, "Nice little store you have here, shame if anything happened to it".  The store owners can either pay them protection money as a form of insurance, or they can face the consequences.  Either way they have to pay.

Underlings were free to get their own side rackets going, as long as they kicked money upstairs to Tony.  This too was an insurance payment.  If anyone infringed on those rackets Tony would rub them out.

When you add it all up Tony was really in the insurance business.  As long as the money flowed upward you were protected. 

And once you understand Tony Soprano's modus operandi you understand how Washington works.

[SirLinksALot]

OK, what is the worst that could happen to this country if Trump stood firm and said to Congress -- I'M NOT SIGNING ANYTHING WITHOUT FUNDING FOR THE WALL.

There would be a government shutdown of course. So? How bad will it be?

[bolobaby]

[bolobaby]

Boy is Rush mad!!!

*What's the point of voting Republican*....

We've lost... and we were led to our destruction by some of "our own."

[Suppressed]

Let's see what we got under this Republican controlled Congress:

1) No funding for the Wall

2) Sanctuary Cities still get their money

3) Planned Parenthood remains fully funded

4) Puerto Rico gets more Medicaid funding.

Tell me why we vote Republican again?

[Applewood]

You would think after 8 years of Democrat rule, the Republicans would have had enough of "compromise" and "bipartisanship" since they now control the presidency and both houses of congress. 

I can only assume that Republicans and Democrats are in league with one another.  Seems the Republicans -- Trump included -- have no intention of keeping their promises to the American people who voted for them. 

[Free Vulcan]

You would think after 8 years of Democrat rule, the Republicans would have had enough of "compromise" and "bipartisanship" since they now control the presidency and both houses of congress. 

I can only assume that Republicans and Democrats are in league with one another.  Seems the Republicans -- Trump included -- have no intention of keeping their promises to the American people who voted for them.

Especially considering we won huge based on supporting a number of things that aren't in the budget bill. They still are boot licking the nearly powerless Dems as if they are afraid of losing it all in '18.

How do we break up this monopoly of power by the Establishment in the GOP? It should be getting primaried out, but it is not. After 20 years in politics, I am out of answers.

[Hondo69]

Seems the Sopranocrats are hoping for a full scale revolution.

OK, we know how to do that.

[txradioguy]

Boy is Rush mad!!!

*What's the point of voting Republican*....

That's humerous coming from the guy that did more to foist Trump on us than just about anyone outside Fox News.