GOP ensures ICE funding through Trump's term in office

The GOP-led Senate wasted no time early Thursday morning, ramming through a budget plan that funds the Department of Homeland Security and pours another $70 billion into immigration enforcement for the rest of President Trump’s term in office. 

Democrats were livid that illegal aliens could not remain in their voter base.

The measure cleared the narrowly divided chamber on a 50-48 party-line vote, with every Republican in support and Democrats unified in opposition. For all Republicans to stand together on any issue is known as "The Miracle on Capitol Hill."

GOP leaders hailed the passage as a critical step to lock down the border [and level the voter playing field]. The resolution now heads to the House and sets up the reconciliation process, allowing Republicans to advance the funding bill without Democrats’ filibuster roadblocks.

“We have a multistep process ahead of us, but at the end, Republicans will have helped ensure that America’s borders are secure and prevented Democrats from defunding these important agencies,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-ND).

Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) ripped into Democrats for blocking DHS funding 16 times. The department has gone without proper funding since February 14, 2026.

“Democrats are playing to the most radical members of their party. Through their actions, Democrats are putting the safety and security of our nation behind the safety and security of their own political careers,” he said from the Senate floor.

Democrats spent the debate pushing amendments they insisted would tackle housing, childcare, and health care costs.

“Instead of pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into ICE and Border Patrol, Republicans should be working with Democrats to lower out-of-pocket costs,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said.

Several Republican priorities fell short after moderate [aka RINO] GOP senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) crossed the aisle to join Democrats. The pair helped kill a proposal from Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) to strip funding from Planned Parenthood.

“One recent study found that in three years alone, Planned Parenthood got a billion and a half dollars from Medicaid and Medicare. Money to be used on these risky surgeries and [transgender] procedures for our children. This is wrong,” Hawley said. “This is a terrible misuse of federal funds, and we should put a stop to it today.”

Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Murkowski, and Collins also teamed up with Democrats to block Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) from attaching the SAVE Act, which would require photo ID to vote in federal elections, to the budget measure.

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Mayorkas admits he's oblivious about top staff hirings: he's just not into it

Dumb and Dumber

Homeland Security Incompetent Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted he doesn't know anything about the top woman, Nina Jankowicz, who was selected to head the department's Disinformation Governance Board. He also doesn't know his butt from a hole in the ground, how many terrorists have crossed into the country on his watch, and who killed JR. In a word, the George Soros-backed head of DHS is an idiot, but a useful idiot.

Mayorkas did not know that Jankowicz has taken many public stands, for example, the Hunter Biden laptop, that was proved wrong as it was authenticated. He also did not know that Jankowicz made ridiculous videos on TikTok that featured her singing politically inspired songs to show tunes like Mary Poppins' "Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious." [Not sure I spelled it correctly but there's a long red line beneath the word.]

In spite of the fearless DHS leader supposedly having no clue as to who this lunatic is, Mayorkas announced last week that the board would be headed by Jankowicz and touted her abilities.

During a Wednesday hearing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) tried to get Mayorkas to explain what the DHS know about Jankowicz when they put her in charge of the new "Ministry of Truth" as some have called it.

“I am in awe of Ms. Jankowicz. I have watched her with slack-jawed astonishment,” Kennedy said. “Who picked her?”

Mayorkas answered “the Department of Homeland Security selected Ms. Jankowicz.”

“Who at the department picked her?” Kennedy asked.

“Senator, we don’t discuss our internal hiring processes,” Mayorkas replied, acting as if a government selection process for a public position is top secret. “I am the secretary of homeland security and ultimately I am responsible.” 

RNC Research, a conservative outlet tweeted:

.@SenJohnKennedy takes DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas to task on the selection of “Ministry of Truth” Director Nina Jankowicz.

“Did [DHS] know that she had said that Mr. Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation…that she had vouched for the veracity of the Steele dossier?” pic.twitter.com/KqOIm00vYR

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 4, 2022

“When the department picked her, did it know that she had said that Mr. Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation?” Kennedy asked.

“I was not aware of that. We do not discuss the internal hiring process. Ultimately, as the secretary I am responsible for the decisions of the Department of Homeland Security,” Mayorkas said, as he tried to skirt responsibility.

“When the department picked Ms. Jankowicz, did it know that she had vouched for the veracity of the Steele dossier?” Kennedy asked.

“Senator, let me repeat myself and add an additional fact. One, we do not discuss internal hiring processes. Two, I was not aware of that fact,” Mayorkas said.

“Three, as the secretary of homeland security I am responsible for the decisions of the department and four, it is my understanding that Ms. Jankowicz is a subject matter expert in the field in which she will be working on behalf of the department.”

“I can tell,” Kennedy said in reply because he is not only a hundred times smarter than Mayorkas, he's also funny.

Mayorkas called the board a “working group” [a somewhat Communist-sounding term] and said it would be mostly concerned with ensuring DHS respects free speech rights, according to The Washington Times.

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“The working group does not have operational capacity and authority. It is to make sure there are policies in place, standards in place, to protect the very rights about which you inquired,” he told Kennedy with a straight face to hide his lie.

Kennedy advised Mayorkas to find out the person who actually hired Jankowicz, the New York Post reported. He added, I would fire him on the spot." 

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AG. Garland misses deadline to give Senate info on basis for school board memo

Imagine, this guy could have been a Supreme Court Justice. Thanks Mitch.

Attorney General Merrick Garland, perhaps the worst AG ever to be in office, told Senate members of the Judiciary Committee last week that the Department of Justice would provide information regarding the DOJ's intervention in matters explaining their actions and words directed toward school board officials. The promise was to be completed by November 1, but so far they failed to provide the committee with the information. It may be due to Garland's incompetence as AG, but it's more likely due to the absence of additional information.

On the day that Garland testified, a letter was sent by eight GOP committee members addressed to Garland and calling for any information that acted as a catalyst for the memo other than the letter the National School Board Association sent to the Biden administration calling for federal action to their baseless claim, as we now know it to be. Garland agreed that the letter had a big effect on the DOJ's decision, but he pretended there was more that influenced his decision and that the letter wasn't the only basis for the memo.

Garland said that the incidents cited in the NSBA letter did not provide the basis for the memo. He claimed that other evidence including "public reports of violence and threats of violence" informed his decision-making, but he did not specify which ones.

"Pursuant to this commitment," the GOP members' letter said, citing Garland's agreement to turn over information, "please provide all evidence you personally used or relied on between Wednesday, September 29, 2021, and Monday, October 4, 2021 – other than the content of the NSBA letter dated Wednesday, September 29, 2021 – that formed the basis for the memo issued by the DOJ dated Monday, October 4th that addressed '…harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff," the letter requested.

"Because you were able to distill your evidence and craft a memo that fixed the gaze of the FBI directly on concerned parents across this country in just four days, you should be able to share that evidence with us in the same period of time," the letter said.

The request was signed by Sens. Ben Sasse, (R-NE), Charles Grassley, (R-IA), Mike Lee, (R-UT), Tom Cotton, (R-AR) Thom Tillis, (R-NC) Lindsey Graham, (R-SC), Marsha Blackburn, (R-TN), and John Kennedy, (R-LA).

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The senators said they specifically chose November 1 as the deadline because it was exactly five days after the hearing. There should have been no problem, no time constraint on Garland's DOJ to gather the information the committee members requested.

But they either failed, or refused to do so.

Parents not wanting their children being taught that the are bad because of their skin color and arguing with the scumcrumpets on the school boards is not violence and the parents are not terrorists.

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Rep. Seth Moulton: GOP states "Are getting what was coming to them" with COVID-19

He has such a sweet and gentle face that it makes it hard to believe that Democratic congressman Seth Moulton of Massachusetts would say that predominantly Republican states are getting what's coming to them regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. He claims these states, not New York which is Democratically governed and has the highest Covid death rate in the country, has ignored science and medical advice regarding safety measures like social distancing  and wearing masks.

Moulton was not asked about the nationwide protests and riots taking place in Democratically-run cities where thousands of rioters fail to keep physical distance between anarchists. He was also not asked about why the John Lewis funeral attendees were allowed to return to Washington, D.C. without having to quarantine like the peasants must. He wasn't even asked about Chris Cuomo, the brother of New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, why he went out in public after contracting the virus. 

Perhaps the virus makes exceptions who it infects and which science has yet to learn about.

Moulton, who ran a failed campaign for president during this current election cycle and totally sucks, made the remarks about blaming the GOP and not the left, during an online conversation with Amy McGrath, a Democrat who is running against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky and will lose, but not gracefully.

“We certainly have this perception in the Northeast that all the red states are, you know, they kind of, they are getting what was coming to them because they refused to follow these mandates and they’re playing politics with this rather than listening to the science,” Moulton said Monday.

Meanwhile, there are over 6,200 dead in New York nursing homes because Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), the most arrogant and worst governors in the country, forced nursing homes to take back residents who were hospitalized for covid.

America First tweeted the video:

This is the latest liberal philosophy in regards to coronavirus: "Red states are, you know, they kind of — they’re getting what was coming to them" pic.twitter.com/Zmjb0V4FXi

— America First (@AmericaFirstPAC)

In order to cover his fat butt, Moulton tweeted out a link to an article regarding his mean spirited comments and wrote, “I don’t believe that personally, but it is true that some people in blue states have that perception. If it gets under some people’s skin enough that they start wearing masks, it will literally save lives.”

It is not a proven fact that masks save lives, but since when do facts matter over leftist's feelings?

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) responded to Moulton’s remarks by tweeting: “A Democratic congressman from our sister state of Massachusetts said that Louisianians and other Southerners are ‘getting what was coming to them’ from COVID-19. Why would anyone want someone else to contract the virus?”

Trump Campaign Rapid Response Director Andrew Clark responded by noting on Twitter, “The Northeast still leads the United States in coronavirus deaths. More people have died in Massachusetts than in Florida. Stop holding up the Northeast as a beacon of coronavirus virtue. It’s not.”

And all the while Joe Biden remains deep in the safety of his basement and not one Democrat has any idea of how they would respond any differently than how Trump has thus far responded.

The Democrats are all hat and no cattle.

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