TO CONQUER A NATION, FIRST DISARM ITS CITIZENS.
Posted on 03/18/2018 6:14:47 AM PDT by DollyCali
Issued on: March 23, 2018
menuALL NEWS Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
In accordance with section 7058(d) of division K of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (H.R. 1625; the “Act”), I hereby designate as an emergency requirement all funding so designated by the Congress in the Act pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, for the accounts referenced in section 7058(d).
The details of this action are set forth in the enclosed memorandum from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Sincerely,
DONALD J. TRUMP************
It means he has full discretion to spend funds as he sees fit.
“The POTUS invoked the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (a law Reagan passed) because of out of control debt and now has discretionary control of all the funds.”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3642138/posts?page=25#25
The "devil" is in the details...
Is this release for real?
Here is the order from December 21st declaring the national emergency.
https://amac.us/president-trump-signs-executive-order-declares-national-emergency/
You can have the coat. I'd rather have a bank account like Trump's.
It wasn't I who said that. It was said by exit82. I merely replied to it.
hoosiermama posts the link on this thread every day. Bless you!
I LOVE the picture of Trump/Pence as Batman and Robin!! Grew up watching that show. :)
Nice graphics, thanks for posting.
I just finished listening to this young man, he’s only 21 years old, give a live stream. He was brought up in the leftist commie school system, was completely brainwashed, voted for HRC, etc.
Then something (God?) made him start digging deep, checking things out for himself, and quickly realized how he had been lied to and deceived.
So now, here is this young millennial, passionate Trump supporter, good Christian man, telling us about this Omnibus Bill, reading that NO funds will be for Planned Parenthood, etc. Then he ends with a PRAYER, thanking God for His many blessings upon us.
His name is Isaac Green. Here is the link below, for anyone interested. It brightened my day knowing there are some really good young people waking up and getting involved to fight the good fight.
All Aboard the Omnibus #AntiSchool March 24 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2z31rWEGEY
Needed that uplifting message. ThankQ
Excellent! Thank you!
FAIR WARNING: THIS week’s column is a deep dive into the inner workings of the House of Representatives. When you kick that rock over, goodness knows what will skitter out. In this case, it reveals some unsavory shenanigans to funnel money to President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall. If you’re for the wall, you’re thinking, “Good! We should be spending taxpayer dollars to keep illegal immigrants out of the country.” But, if I told you the money was going to come from the Pentagon budget, would that still make sense to you? Federal military troops are forbidden to engage in law enforcement actions – such as enforcing immigration law – by the long-standing posse comitatus prohibitions. (The National Guard is a different case, since its members are under the partial control of their state governors.) The federal agencies charged with protecting U.S. borders and enforcing immigration laws, like the Coast Guard and the Border Patrol, are in the Department of Homeland Security. And the president’s budget request for fiscal year 2018 includes just over $44 billion for the department. o, again, I ask, why should the Pentagon be asked to pay for a border wall? It seems to be a testament to the famous reason Willie Sutton gave for robbing banks: “Because that’s where the money is.” The Pentagon, with a total proposed budget of $639 billion ($574 in base budget and $65 billion in special “war” accounts), is where lawmakers can find the money for just about anything. But the House Armed Services Committee version of the annual Pentagon policy bill included a common-sense provision to make sure the Pentagon isn’t tasked with paying for the wall: “Section 1039. Rule of construction regarding use of Department of Defense funding of a border wall. None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this act or otherwise made available for the fiscal year 2018 for the Department of Defense may be used to plan, develop or construct any barriers, including walls or fences, along the international border of the United States.” A careful reading of this language (and that’s what we do at Taxpayers for Common Sense) points out this is a fairly broad prohibition. The armed services committees don’t ultimately control how federal dollars are spent. The Constitution preserves that role for the appropriations committees. But by saying “or otherwise made available … for the Department of Defense,” the House Armed Services Committee was foreclosing the possibility of spending any Pentagon money on this wall in a more comprehensive way. That was the plan. And at Taxpayers for Common Sense, we supported the idea. Enter the House Rules Committee. A little known congressional powerhouse, the Rules Committee is also called the speaker’s committee. It’s called that because the speaker of the House simultaneously served as the chairman of the committee until 1910 and, as the committee website says, “because it is the mechanism that the speaker uses to maintain control of the House floor.” The Pentagon policy bill, HR 2810, needed a “rule” to allow for its consideration on the House floor. The committee meets to consider the hundreds of amendments offered by House members, decide which will be allowed during House debate and determine how long that debate may last. And this is where we’re going to step off the cliff into the inner workings of the House, as I promised above. An amendment was offered by Republican Reps. Steven Palazzo and Trent Kelly from Mississippi (which has coastline but no land border) to strike Section 1039. That means Pentagon money could be spent to construct a border wall. In the normal process of things, this amendment would have been accepted by the Rules Committee and then debated and voted on by the full House of Representatives. But nothing about this amendment can be called normal. The Rules Committee took this one amendment and labeled it, “proposed to be adopted.” In the arcana of House rules, this means that voting for the rule governing consideration of the bill was also voting for this amendment. This is known as a “self-executing rule.” The ranking Democrat on the committee, Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York, offered an amendment to strike the self-executing portion of the rule and was defeated in committee on a party-line vote of 4-8. On the House floor, the vote on the full rule passed. And at the end of a long and exhausting day (and story), that means Pentagon money can be used to construct a border wall. Talk about governing under the cover of darkness.
Says page doesn’t exist any more
I think disregard this article. Response to me from Cboldt
— I still haven’t found any language in the bill that supports it. —
Considering the article you posted, there are at least two bills involved. HR 1625, the omnibus appropriations bill signed into law yesterday, and HR 2810: National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2018.
Assuming your article is correct, and I have no reason to doubt this part of it, the proposed language forbidding DoD to build a border wall is missing from HR 2810. I agree. The language cited in the article is not in the National Defense Authorization Act.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3642191/posts
Did Trump Just Hint at Building the Border Wall Using he Military?...
This bill became the vehicle for passage of the government spending bill for the remainder of fiscal year 2018. On March 22, 2018, the House replaced the text of the bill with the spending bill (preprint text).
This bill was formerly the TARGET Act. A summary of the earlier bill from the Republican Policy Committee follows:
H.R. 1625 amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize the State Department and law enforcement agencies to target international human traffickers by offering financial rewards for their arrest or ...
These next two links are pdf files and I don't know how to copy and paste them.
Section 7058 Global Health Activities deals with Haiti and infectious diseases. 7058(d) starts on page 66.
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act Section 251 starts on page 2.
After looking all this up I STILL DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE HECK IT IS ALL ABOUT. :-(
I’m right there with you..hopefully Peabody will read this and reply.
LOL, I don’t know. It sounded like it and then half of FR says he can’t do it, the other half says he can.
I personally think he won’t do anything that is contrary to the law. However, congress may have left him loopholes unintentionally.
He’s always said he is great at reading contracts and they all have some kind of loophole.
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