President Trump put the brakes on Speaker Pelosi’s intention
to use taxpayer money to finance a Dem Party political junket to Brussels,
Egypt and Afghanistan. This news went viral on Conservative Social Media
yesterday.
The President’s stated reasoning was because Pelosi and Dems
refuse to negotiate a political settlement to the government shutdown and
funding the border security Wall.
Most realize the probable true reason was because Pelosi
tried to silence President Trump from using the State of the Union (SOTU)
Address to influence Americans about Dem Obstructionism. Pelosi – typical of a
Democratic Party operative – LIED about security concerns for the SOTU due to the
lack of government shutdown funding. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and the Secret Service repudiated
Speaker Pelosi’s security funding propaganda.
GOOD FOR TRUMP! If Pelosi is so concerned about government
funding she and her MSM propaganda tools should not complain about President
preventing a Dem Party foreign junket on government funds not available due the
shutdown.
Spare, if you will, a moment’s pity for Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). They are
not exactly enjoying the government shutdown as they might have hoped.
Pelosi had already packed her bags and boarded the Air Force
bus Thursday, along with a sizable delegation of House Democratic leaders, for
her overseas junket.
She and her comrades were, no doubt, looking forward to
touring NATO’s billion-dollar-plus new headquarters in Brussels; posing for
selfies on camelback by the pyramids in Egypt; grinning for photo-ops with the
troops in Afghanistan.
Then the order came from President Donald Trump to prohibit
her use of government aircraft.
Fly commercial, he suggested. There is a
government shutdown going on, after all.
And, as Trump noted, 800,000 federal workers will continue
to go unpaid — unless Democrats stay in town to negotiate.
The bus went ’round the block and back.
Pelosi’s shock must have been quite something to observe.
She is not used to being treated like this, you see. She
apparently expected she could cancel (ahem, “postpone”) the State of the Union
address due to the shutdown — and then disappear abroad.
Trump’s response — blocking Pelosi’s use of the aircraft —
was gutsy. It was a “drain the swamp” moment.
But the timing was pure comedy gold. (Adam Schiff, stepping off the bus,
looked like he’d seen a Russian.)
In a statement, Pelosi’s spokesman protested that the purpose
of the trip had been “to affirm the United States’ ironclad commitment to the
NATO alliance,” something the president had already done earlier
that day.
Her real goal was to conduct an alternative foreign policy —
as she did after being elected Speaker in 2007, when she paid a friendly visit to
Syrian butcher Bashar al-Assad.
Pelosi’s flack complained that President Trump himself had
flown to visit the troops in Iraq early in the shutdown.
But Trump is the commander-in-chief, and Pelosi is not. How
jarring for her to be reminded that although she might pretend the Constitution
grants her equal power to the president, only Trump can turn the bus around.
It was just the latest setback for Pelosi in the shutdown
fight.
She and Schumer insisted on equal television time after
Trump’s Oval Office address last week — only to be mocked mercilessly for odd
staging and absurd makeup.
Pelosi must have thought her State of the Union gambit would
be a winner. And it was — with the media.
Politico’s lead headline Thursday morning blared:
“PELOSI PLAYS HARDBALL.” The article added: “The bold move also sent the
unmistakable signal that Pelosi holds all the cards in the lower chamber.” A
separate article in
Politico declared: “Donald Trump may have finally met his match in Nancy
Pelosi.” It described her as “satin and steel.”
CNN’s Chris Cilizza also chimed in, praising Pelosi’s
“major power move.”
But her decision was soon exposed as a major blunder.
First, Pelosi’s stated justification — security concerns —
was quickly debunked by the Secret
Service and Department of Homeland Security. (In other words: she lied.)
Second, by refusing to hear the president’s speech, Pelosi
effectively gave Trump license to give his speech anywhere — in the Senate,
perhaps, or in a football stadium, far beyond the frowns of Pelosi’s new
majority.
Believe it or not, Trump is winning the shutdown.
True, polls suggest a
majority of Americans blame him — not a surprise, since he told us he would be
“proud” to
take responsibility. And a National Public Radio poll suggested that
there are “cracks showing with his base.”
Moreover, though the public is somewhat inoculated against
the media’s usual shutdown horror stories — they have cried wolf too many times
before — there could be some real hardship ahead.
Yet Trump is winning — because he is fighting back.
That is partly a consequence of his position: the White
House always has the advantage in a negotiation with Congress, especially a
divided Congress.
But Trump is also winning because he is fighting harder —
and smarter — than any Republican has before.
He began by picking the right battle. The one reason for
which the public — or enough of the public — might forgive a government
shutdown is national security. And Trump has framed the border issue
as a national security problem, not a question of immigration policy.
That means the shutdown can never be entirely his fault: it
is his duty, as commander-in-chief, to refuse to sign a budget that places
Americans in danger.
Trump does not need to convince the polls that he is right.
He knows if he begins to solve the problem, his support will return.
Pelosi and Schumer are somewhat new to problem-solving. They
have also never seen a Republican who fights back. That is why they are losing
the shutdown.
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The House Creates Funding but the President
Manages the Spending
Twenty-one nations
that receive U.S. foreign aid refused to support a U.N. vote to condemn Hamas
as a terrorist organization in the Islamic terrorist organization’s recent
attack on Israeli soil.
Canada Free Press (CFP)
author David Singer suggests tapping into that nearly $14 BILLION in aid be withheld and use at least a portion of it to build the Border Wall.
If President Trump can legally redirect foreign aid, then
the President should thumb his nose at hate-Trump Dems and BUILD THAT WALL!
JRH 12/19/18
So readers, I’ve been using a seven year old laptop to fulfill the
old blogging habit. My lovely wife sprang for an upgrade.
I’m a relatively small-time blogger but with a consistently
growing readership despite some token censorship from the
UN hit list can
bypass Congress and fund Trump border wall
If the President does not secure the border wall funding from
Congress--then those countries that humiliated Trump could well see their
foreign aid in 2019 slashed from their 2017 levels
21 Nations that received almost $14 billion in US foreign aid in 2017 could
become the key to unlocking the White House confrontation between
President Trump and Democrat leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer over their
refusal to commit the Democrats to authorizing Congress to commit $5 billion
immediately towards the construction of Trump’s border wall to prevent illegal
immigration into America.
Trump’s threatened Government shutdown by 21 December has
been withdrawn as he seeks alternative sources of funding.
The following UN hit list offers a ready solution:
Country - US Aid 2017
Bangladesh - $261 million
Congo - $494 million
Egypt - $1475 million
Indonesia - $277 million
Iraq - $3712 million
Jordan - $1489 million
Lebanon - $505 million
Mali - $230 million
Morocco - $490 million
Mozambique - $580 million
Niger - $173 million
Nigeria - $852 million
Pakistan - $837 million
Russia - $168 million
Senegal - $197 million
South Africa - $511 million
Turkey - $153 million
Vietnam - $150 million
Yemen - $595 million
Zambia - $419 million
Zimbabwe - $194 million
TOTAL - $13762 Million
These 21 states were major players in humiliating Trump -
when an
American sponsored resolution in the United Nations General
Assembly seeking to condemn Hamas and other militant groups for
indiscriminately targeting Israel’s predominantly Jewish civilian population
since 2007 failed to secure the required two-third’s majority earlier
determined as necessary for its passage.
Trump has warned on many occasions that those who receive
money from America—yet do not support America diplomatically—stand to lose
financially as a result.
·Trump has already well and truly practised what
he preached:
·Defunding the United Nations Relief and Works
Agency of $360 million annually
·Withdrawing from UNESCO leaving it to fund the
22% of its budget lost as a result
·Calling on NATO countries to meet their agreed
share of the NATO budget
·Cutting more than $200 million in funding the
Palestine Liberation Organisation
Trump has already ominously warned those countries
that humiliated him on the Hamas Resolution that they could be in the firing
line for reductions in their annual foreign aid as a result of not voting with
America.
This threat becomes increasingly more likely as the
Democrats dig in their heels and refuse to give the President the $5 billion he
needs to build the border wall—one of the President’s cardinal promises made in
the 2016 election campaign that has been frustrated by the Democrats from the
day Trump became President.
Trump should be readily able to determine how $5 billion of
this $14 billion funding to these recalcitrant states can be redirected to
building the border wall.
Trump can also look at defunding:
·another 54 recipients of US aid that supported a
two-thirds majority vote being required on the Hamas resolution over America’s
claim that a simple majority only was necessary and
·an additional 36 similarly US-funded countries that
voted against condemning Hamas on the actual motion
Jordan and Egypt—in addition to not voting with
America—apparently continue to resist Trump’s efforts to replace the Palestine
Liberation Organisation in negotiations with Israel on Trump’s peace proposals.
Their aid could be substantially reduced by a clearly-piqued and very angered
Trump.
The ball is now well and truly in the Democrats hands.
If the President does not secure the border wall funding
from Congress—then those countries that humiliated Trump could well see their
foreign aid in 2019 slashed from their 2017 levels.
Trump is determined to protect America against illegal
immigration—and no one will be allowed to stand in his way of making America
great again.
Author’s note: The cartoon—commissioned
exclusively for this article—is by Yaakov Kirschen aka “Dry Bones”—one of
Israel’s foremost political and social commentators—whose cartoons have graced
the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades. His cartoons
can be viewed at Drybonesblog
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David Singeris an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the
International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine
International—an organization calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza
to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the
Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at: jordanispalestine.blogspot.com
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On August 31 in a Phoenix Arizona speech, Donald Trump outlines
his ten-point plan for immigration reform. Most Conservative outlets were very
pleased with the speech. I have not checked the American Left’s (Dems and MSM)
viewpoint on the speech yet. The reason for that is the spin of lies and warped
criticism that typically flows from a Leftist’s mouth.
Even the Never Trumper Conservatives of the Nationally Reviewgrudgingly praised the speech as sensible:
After two weeks spent waffling on immigration, and making noises on
the subject largely indistinguishable from those of Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio,
Donald Trump has settled on a hawkish position — and a practical one. Trump’s
crowd-pleasing antics aside, in his immigration speech in Phoenix, Ariz., on
Wednesday he laid out a sensible, realistic path forward on genuine immigration
reform.
…
Trump’s rhetoric on immigration has
frequently been reckless, and on occasion he has seemed to play to feelings of
animosity. He would be well served to strike a soberer tone. But on the merits,
Trump has put forward a responsible immigration agenda. –READENTIRETY (A Tough but
Sensible Immigration Policy; By TheEditors; National
Review; 9/1/16 7:30 PM)
The Trump plan for immigration reform is awesome! It focuses
on security, the border and unvetted Muslim regugees.
Donald Trump’s speech in entirety can be read at DonaldTrump.com. I am excerpting the ten
points followed by the entire speech (about 1:17 and some odd seconds) courtesy
of ABC.
Number One: We will build a wall
along the Southern Border.
On day one, we will begin working
on an impenetrable physical wall on the southern border. We will use the best
technology, including above-and below-ground sensors, towers, aerial surveillance
and manpower to supplement the wall, find and dislocate tunnels, and keep out
the criminal cartels, and Mexico will pay for the wall.
Number Two: End
Catch-And-Release
Under my Administration, anyone who
illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our
country.
Number Three: Zero tolerance for
criminal aliens.
According to federal data, there
are at least 2 million criminal aliens now inside the country. We will begin
moving them out day one, in joint operations with local, state and federal law
enforcement.
Beyond the 2 million, there are a
vast number of additional criminal illegal immigrants who have fled or evaded
justice. But their days on the run will soon be over. They go out, and they go
out fast.
Moving forward, we will issue
detainers for all illegal immigrants who are arrested for any crime whatsoever,
and they will be placed into immediate removal proceedings. We will terminate
the Obama Administration’s deadly non-enforcement policies that allow thousands
of criminal aliens to freely roam our streets.
Since 2013 alone, the Obama
Administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into U.S.
communities – these are individuals encountered or identified by ICE but who
were not detained or processed for deportation.
My plan also includes cooperating
closely with local jurisdictions to remove criminal aliens.
We will restore the highly
successful Secure Communities program. We will expand and revitalize the
popular 287(g) partnerships, which will help to identify hundreds of thousands
of deportable aliens in local jails. Both of these programs have been
recklessly gutted by this Administration. This is yet one more area where we
are headed in a totally opposite direction.
On my first day in office, I am
also going to ask Congress to pass “Kate’s Law” – named for Kate Steinle – to
ensure that criminal aliens convicted of illegal reentry face receive strong
mandatory minimum sentences.
Another reform I am proposing is
the passage of legislation named for Detective Michael Davis and Deputy Sheriff
Danny Oliver, two law enforcement officers recently killed by a
previously-deported illegal immigrant. The Davis-Oliver bill will enhance
cooperation with state and local authorities to ensure that criminal immigrants
and terrorists are swiftly identified and removed.
We are going to triple the number
of ICE deportation officers. Within ICE, I am going to create a new special
Deportation Task Force, focused on identifying and removing quickly the most
dangerous criminal illegal immigrants in America who have evaded justice.
The local police know who every one
of these criminals are. There’s no great mystery to it, they’ve put up with it
for years. And now, finally, we will turn the tables and law enforcement will
be allowed to clear up this dangerous and threatening mess.
We’re also going to hire 5,000 more
Border Patrol agents, and put more of them on the border, instead of behind
desks. We will expand the number of Border Patrol Stations.
I’ve had a chance to spend time
with these incredible law enforcement officers, and I want to take a moment to
thank them. The endorsement I’ve received from the Border Patrol officers means
more to me than I can say.
Number Four: Block Funding For
Sanctuary Cities
We will end the Sanctuary Cities
that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate
with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars, and we will work
with Congress to pass legislation to protect those jurisdictions that do assist
federal authorities.
Number Five: Cancel
Unconstitutional Executive Orders & Enforce All Immigration Laws
We will immediately terminate
President Obama’s two illegal executive amnesties, in which he defied federal
law and the constitution to give amnesty to approximately 5 million illegal
immigrants.
Hillary Clinton has pledged to keep
both of these illegal amnesty programs – including the 2014 amnesty which has
been blocked by the Supreme Court. Clinton has also pledged to add a third
executive amnesty.
Clinton’s plan would trigger a
Constitutional Crisis unlike almost anything we have ever seen before. In
effect, she would be abolishing the lawmaking powers of Congress in order to
write her own laws from the Oval Office.
In a Trump Administration, all
immigration laws will be enforced. As with any law enforcement activity, we
will set priorities. But, unlike this Administration, no one will be immune or
exempt from enforcement – and ICE and Border Patrol officers will be allowed to
do their jobs. Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to
deportation – that is what it means to have laws and to have a country.
Our enforcement priorities will
include removing criminals, gang members, security threats, visa overstays,
public charges – that is, those relying on public welfare or straining the
safety net, along with millions of recent illegal arrivals and overstays who’ve
come here under the current Administration.
Number Six: We Are Going To
Suspend The Issuance Of Visas To Any Place Where Adequate Screening Cannot
Occur
According to data provided to the
Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, between 9/11 and
the end of 2014, at least 380 foreign-born individuals were convicted in terror
cases inside the United States. The number is likely higher, but the
Administration refuses to provide this information to Congress.
As soon as I enter office, I am
going to ask the Department of State, Homeland Security and the Department of
Justice to begin a comprehensive review of these cases in order to develop a
list of regions and countries from which immigration must be suspended until
proven and effective vetting mechanisms can be put into place.
Countries from which immigration
will be suspended would include places like Syria and Libya.
For the price of resettling 1
refugee in the United States, 12 could be resettled in a safe zone in their
home region.
Another reform involves new
screening tests for all applicants that include an ideological certification to
make sure that those we are admitting to our country share our values and love
our people.
For instance, in the last five
years, we’ve admitted nearly 100,000 immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan – in
these two countries, according to Pew research, a majority of residents say
that the barbaric practice of honor killings against women are often or
sometimes justified.
Applicants will be asked for their
views about honor killings, about respect for women and gays and minorities,
attitudes on Radical Islam, and many other topics as part of the vetting
procedure.
Number Seven: We will ensure
that other countries take their people back when we order them deported
There are at least 23 countries
that refuse to take their people back after they have been ordered to leave the
United States, including large numbers of violent criminals. Due to a Supreme
Court decision, if these violent offenders cannot be sent home, our law
enforcement officers have to release them into U.S. communities. There are
often terrible consequences, such as Casey Chadwick’s tragic death in
Connecticut just last year. Yet, despite the existence of a law that commands
the Secretary of State to stop issuing visas to these countries, Secretary
Hillary Clinton ignored this law and refused to use this powerful tool to bring
nations into compliance.
The result of her misconduct was
the release of thousands of dangerous criminal aliens who should have been sent
home.
According to a report from the
Boston Globe, from the year 2008 through 2014, nearly 13,000 criminal aliens
were released back into U.S. communities because their home countries would not
take them back. Many of these 13,000 releases occurred on Hillary Clinton’s
watch – she had the power and the duty to stop it cold and she didn’t do it.
Those released include individuals
convicted of killings, sexual assault and some of the most heinous crimes
imaginable, who went on to reoffend at a very high rate.
Number Eight: We will finally
complete the biometric entry-exit visa tracking system.
For years, Congress has required a
biometric entry-exit visa tracking system, but it has never been completed.
In my Administration, we will
ensure that this system is in place at all land, air, and sea ports. Approximately
half of new illegal immigrants came on temporary visas and then never left.
Beyond violating our laws, visa overstays pose a substantial threat to national
security. The 9/11 Commission said that this tracking system should be a high
priority and “would have assisted law enforcement and intelligence officials in
August and September 2001 in conducting a search for two of the 9/11 hijackers
that were in the U.S. on expired visas.”
Last year alone, nearly a half a
million individuals overstayed their temporary visas. Removing visa overstays
will be a top priority of my Administration. If people around the world believe
they can just come on a temporary visa and never leave – the Obama-Clinton
policy – then we have a completely open border. We must send the message that
visa expiration dates will be strongly enforced.
Number Nine: We will turn off
the jobs and benefits magnet.
We will ensure that E-Verify is
used to the fullest extent possible under existing law, and will work with
Congress to strengthen and expand its use across the country.
Immigration law doesn’t exist just
for the purpose of keeping out criminals. It exists to protect all aspects of
American life – the worksite, the welfare office, the education system and much
else. That is why immigration limits are established in the first place. If we
only enforce the laws against crime, then we have an open border to the entire
world.
I will enforce all of our
immigration laws.
The same goes for government
benefits. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 62 percent of
households headed by illegal immigrants used some form of cash or non-cash
welfare programs, like food stamps or housing assistance. This directly
violates the federal public charge law designed to protect the U.S. treasury.
Those who abuse our welfare system
will be priorities for removal.
Number 10: We will reform legal
immigration to serve the best interests of America and its workers
We’ve admitted 59 million
immigrants to the United States between 1965 and 2015.
Many of these arrivals have greatly
enriched our country. But we now have an obligation to them, and to their
children, to control future immigration – as we have following previous
immigration waves – to ensure assimilation, integration and upward mobility.
Within just a few years immigration
as a share of national population is set to break all historical records.
The time has come for a new
immigration commission to develop a new set of reforms to our legal immigration
system in order to achieve the following goals:
oTo keep immigration levels, measured by
population share, within historical norms
oTo select immigrants based on their likelihood
of success in U.S. society, and their ability to be financially
self-sufficient. We need a system that serves our needs – remember, it’s
America First.
oTo choose immigrants based on merit, skill and
proficiency
oAnd to establish new immigration controls to
boost wages and to ensure that open jobs are offered to American workers first.
We want people to come into our
country, but they have to come in legally and properly-vetted, and in a manner
that serves the national interest.
We’ve been living under outdated
immigration rules from decades ago. To avoid this happening in the future, I
believe we should sunset our visa laws so that Congress is forced to
periodically revise and revisit them. We wouldn’t put our entire federal budget
on autopilot for decades, so why should we do the same for immigration?
Let’s talk about the big picture
These ten steps, if rigorously
followed and enforced, will accomplish more in a matter of months than our
politicians have accomplished on this issue in the last fifty years.
Because I am not a politician,
because I am not beholden to any special interest, I will get this done for you
and your family.
YOU should really
take the time to read or to watch the entire speech! The speech was focused on
immigration HOWEVER, the atmosphere exudes quite believable patriotism to make
AMERICA GREAT.
Donald Trump FULL
Immigration Speech from Phoenix | Donald Trump has started giving his
long-awaited immigration speech in Phoenix tonight after touching down in the
U.S. after a surprise visit to Mexico.
When he started talking about the "beautiful" wall that he wants to
build along the southern U.S. border, Trump reiterated his earlier claim that
Mexico will pay for the wall. That became …READ
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