Congress Rolls Out Massive Government Funding Bill, Tax Break Extensions

Daily Caller ^ | Juliegrace Brufke

[Ray76]

Late Tuesday evening, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced negotiators had come to an agreement on the “omnibus” government funding bill and tax breaks extension package.

After weeks of negotiations, the $1.1 trillion, 2,009 page omnibus package that would keep the government funded until September 2016, was rolled out just after 1:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Sources close to negotiations told The Daily Caller News Foundation that lawmakers had hoped to vote on the must-pass spending measure Thursday, but due to a rule requiring legislation be posted for at least three days — at the earliest — it will hit the floor for a vote Friday.

[cherry]

do I get a tax break? or is it just the rich, the illegal, and the demonrats?

[demshateGod]

Good ol’ Paul Ryan: tying baby slaughter funding to tax break extensions. Let's think about that phrase for a second: tax break extensions. What does that mean? It's the government's money by right, they just keep extending the period in which we get to keep it.

[Tzimisce]

Bend over America.

This might pinch a bit. :)

[Paladin2]

"negotiators"?

'Zactly who B Dat?

[Iron Munro]

THE UNIPARTY PREVAILS

Republicrats and Demoplicans reach agreement again.

[dp0622]

Yes.

AMD the funding will expire JUST in time to make Cruz and others look like zealots for wanting a sane budget

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Good thing the GOP has control of both houses of congress!

Spit.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article Ray76. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

I am totally confident that Congress can justify everything in the funding bill under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers. /sarc

”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

When patriots elect Trump, or whatever conservative they elect, they also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the president.

An added bonus to such a Congress is that it will probably be more willing to fire activist justices.

[SMM48]

I guess 3 days means they will be voting for this piece of crap at 1:30 Saturday morning, no?

[V K Lee]

Too see double speak seldom used is rather refreshing. What once was called a ‘budget’ is now named Spending Bill. Congress critters have not shaken hands with a budget in years - they’ve forgotten what one is. The are close friends with Spending Bills. ENOUGH IS FAR TOO MUCH

[Liz]

TAXPAYERS---SAY HASTA LA VISTA TO YOUR TAX DOLLARS

Rep Cuellar: Federal Budget Deal Includes Crucial Foreign Aid To Stem Illegal Immigration
Texas Tribune / by Jay Root / Dec. 16, 2015

(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)

Photo by Spencer Selvidge
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, at a Texas Tribune Event.

In a rare bipartisan compromise on illegal immigration, the next federal budget will provide nearly $1 billion in funding for Mexico and Central America to help stop the flow of undocumented migrants to the United States, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar announced Wednesday. Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat, said he worked closely with Republican U.S. Rep. Kay Granger of Fort Worth in securing the $897 million for the region — an increase of almost $200 million for Central America alone.

Cuellar said the money, much of it to promote economic stability and development, will give immigrants more reason to stay home, all the while providing badly needed breathing room for overtaxed law enforcement officers along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Laredo native said too often policymakers focus their attention on those crossing over the border into the U.S. while ignoring the problems festering on the other side of it, making it harder to stop the flow. We continue to play defense on our goal line when it comes to the issue of illegal immigration, Cuellar said. I’ve repeatedly said that to stop illegal immigration here at home, we must provide strategic investment abroad.

The funding is part of the deal to fund the U.S. government in the 2016 fiscal year. Finalized Tuesday night, it still has to be passed in both houses and approved by the president before becoming law.

The funding package includes $750 million to support the Plan of the Alliance for Prosperity in the Northern Triangle, a program aimed at implementing economic and legal reforms in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, plus $100 million to help Mexico combat drug trafficking, Cuellar’s office said.

SOURCE http://www.texastribune.org/2015/12/16/cuellar- says-foreign-aid-fight-illegal-immigration/

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HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU TAX DOLLARS

Guatemalan president absconded to the US w/ the country's foreign aid money---to do some money laundering (cackle).

NY POST REPORT: Former Guatemala Prez used US banks to launder millions (elected to "redistribute" nation's wealth)

An ex-president of Guatemala faced charges in NY that he used US banks to launder millions looted from his impoverished nation. Alfonso Portillo took office in 2000 pledging to redistribute Guatemala’s wealth.

Portillo, 61, allegedly ran scams to drain the impoverished country's coffers. The feds say Portillo embezzled about $2.5M provided by the Taiwanese embassy....$1.5 million was earmarked for “Libraries for Peace”....books for school kids.

Portillo personally endorsed three, $500,000 checks issued against an account at the Intl Bank of China in Manhattan, then deposited the cash in the Miami bank account of a Guatemalan bank controlled by “a close associate and political supporter” .....the money was funneled to bank accounts in Paris in the names of Portillo’s ex-wife and daughter.

Portillo swindled nearly $4M defense funds ...and plundered the national bank run by his alleged co-conspirator through overdrafts financed by public reserves -- stolen money paid for expensive watches and cars, for himself and his associates, according to the indictment. (NY POST 5/28/13)

SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/former_guatemala_ program_used_from_bJ7Akdr3YK85070OumW5FN

[hal ogen]

Most of our “leaders” are criminals. Pathetic.

[Osage Orange]

So....we are sending millions over the borders...to give some breathing room to the Border Patrol.

That's what the moron said...!!! Why not build more fence and hire more American's to guard it!!

We have idiots "leading" us.......

Or criminals....probably both!!!!

[dragnet2]

Those on SS, this is an example of why ya didn’t get even a tiny increase this year as prices of everything go up.

Just a small example of how these traitors operate.

Even suggesting this BS should be enough cause to start conducting investigations these AH’s and all their connections. They reek bad...Bad juju.

[dragnet2]

In a rare bipartisan compromise on illegal immigration, the next federal budget will provide nearly $1 billion in funding for Mexico and Central America to help stop the flow of undocumented migrants to the United States, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar announced Wednesday.

These are the same AH's who intentionally created this epic problem, now they're going to loot the American people even

We're being flat-out looted and betrayed. No joke.

[dragnet2]

The next federal budget will provide nearly $1 billion in funding for Mexico and Central America to help stop the flow of undocumented migrants to the United States, U.S. securing the $897 million for the region.... an increase of almost $200 million for Central America alone.

The funding package includes $750 million to support the Plan of the Alliance for Prosperity in the Northern Triangle, a program aimed at implementing economic and legal reforms in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, plus $100 million to help Mexico combat drug trafficking,

Read all about it America.

We're infested with traitors and con-men who are taking bribes, kickbacks and lining their own GD pockets..

[Nifster]

Thanks a lot Pual. You are an even bigger douche than Johnny Bonehead

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Bump!

You keep getting better, Liz. Devastating. I’ll red-flag it.

FRegards ....

[Liz]

EXTORTIONIST Guatemalan President Otto Perez warns
the US will be inundated w/ even more contagious illegals
if billions of US tax dollars are not handed over.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The United States should provide billions of dollars to help Central American nations curb the flow of illegal migrants, Guatemalan President Otto Perez said, and his government warns the problem will get worse if Washington fails to help.

Fleeing violence, trying to reach relatives already in the United States or seeking jobs, record numbers of child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have been stopped at the southern U.S. border this year, causing widespread alarm. Last month, the three countries pitched Washington an ambitious development plan to confront the issue.

They want to pump about $10 billion into the region to create jobs and lift living standards, with the bulk of funding coming from the United States, Perez told Reuters. He hopes the plan could come up with about $2 billion a year from 2015 to 2019, a sum he equated to roughly 10 percent of annual U.S. spending on border security and immigration enforcement.

"Now we understand it's not simply a question of the United States saying: 'Right, here's $2 billion a year for five years' for example - the governments of the three countries have to play their part too," the conservative Perez, who took power in early 2012, said in an interview late on Monday.

The US aid package would boost infrastructure and provide more jobs in all three countries, especially in areas that send large numbers of migrants to the United States, he added.

The three Central American governments are urging the United States to shoulder the lion's share of the costs, arguing that U.S. demand for illegal narcotics has fueled violence among drug gangs across much of the impoverished region.

"The United States has to support this, it has no other option," Guatemala's foreign minister, Carlos Morales, told Reuters. "If they don't support it, the crisis will kick off again, you can count on it."

Perez said he hoped the United States would put up about 60 percent of funding. "But we'll have to discuss it calmly and see what each individual country can do, and what can be achieved by common consent."

During meetings in New York in September, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Central American officials he hoped Congress could approve about $300 million in funding, Morales said, noting the sum was "nothing" given the scale of the problem.

Central American leaders are due to meet Vice President Joe Biden on Nov. 12 in Washington to sound out U.S. support for their plan, Morales added.--SNIP--

(Reporting by Dave Graham; Editing by Kieran Murray) http://news.yahoo.com/u-stump-billions-curb- central-america-migration-perez-171130651.html

Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala, Juan Orlando Hernandez, Honduras,
and Salvador Sanchez Ceren of El Salvador in the WH.