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Sen. Ted Cruz, others announce bill to fund $25 billion border wall
KXAN ^ | 6 Dec 2018 | Tulsi Kamath

Posted on 12/06/2018 11:25:55 AM PST by BeauBo

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz with three other senators introduced a bill Wednesday that is aimed at fully funding a wall along the US-Mexico border... The WALL Act would fully fund the border wall by closing existing loopholes that provide illegal immigrants with federal benefits and tax credits, without affecting the benefits and tax credits used by Americans.

(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Canada; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Florida; US: New Mexico; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 115th; 2018election; 2020election; abitlate; aliens; arizona; backbencher; betoorourke; border; budget; buildthewall; california; canada; cruz; election2018; election2020; federalspending; florida; mexico; newmexico; newyork; tedcruz; texas; thewallact; tulsikamath; wall; wallact
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To: gbscott

Keep the horseclinton coming, FRiend!


161 posted on 12/07/2018 12:53:25 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: Jarhead9297

“Fell better? Get it all out?

Thanks — I’m still learning what opinions are not tolerated here by Cruzbots.


162 posted on 12/07/2018 1:08:30 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: ontap

It’s ok, MANY here share the opinion you despise, and what’s really hilarious, is that only Cruzbots are projecting the word “hate” onto posters whose opinions they don’t tolerate.

Keep ‘em coming!


163 posted on 12/07/2018 1:11:32 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: Reno89519

Excellent post.

The intolerance is strong with Cruzbots.


164 posted on 12/07/2018 1:13:23 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: All

“Funny how you avoid telling where you are from....ashamed of it?????”

And now, the bullying.


165 posted on 12/07/2018 1:14:51 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: Yo-Yo

“All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”

This doesn’t sound to me like a bill for raising revenue.


166 posted on 12/07/2018 1:18:42 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: treetopsandroofs
only Cruzbots are projecting the word “hate”

The only hate being projected is from people hating on Ted Cruz.....for two years after a primary....how stupid is that!!!!

167 posted on 12/07/2018 1:49:35 PM PST by ontap
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To: treetopsandroofs

Asking where someone is from is “bullying”....what a little snow flake you are!!!


168 posted on 12/07/2018 1:50:58 PM PST by ontap
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To: ontap

Taunting and bullying.

KEEP ‘EM COMING!!!!!


169 posted on 12/07/2018 1:56:43 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: ontap

Please DO keep excreting!


170 posted on 12/07/2018 1:57:37 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: All; CatherineofAragon

CatherineofAragon would be so pleased at the resurgence of the #neverTrump Cruzbots.

Big Media has them smelling blood again.

Sure, Trump’s 2016 campaign Will collapse any day now.

Haha.


171 posted on 12/07/2018 1:59:57 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: treetopsandroofs

MOMMY that man is “Taunting and bullying.” me!!!!! “On Fwee WepubWic” !!!!


172 posted on 12/07/2018 2:00:07 PM PST by ontap
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To: treetopsandroofs

Bt the way ..Where you from???


173 posted on 12/07/2018 2:01:40 PM PST by ontap
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To: Windflier
Do you remember if that bill designated that the money was to be used for the wall? Thanks.

Yes. I believe so.

174 posted on 12/07/2018 5:54:49 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
From Freeper BeauBo:

"Do you remember if that bill (The El Chapo asset forfeiture bill) designated that the money was to be used for the wall?”

Yes it did designate the money for the wall - and it would have been Mexicans paying for it.

Another proposal on the House side would establish a fund of up to $25 billion, that the Administration could fill through many possible non-appropriated ways (such aset forfeiture being one of them).

175 posted on 12/07/2018 6:43:32 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: BeauBo
At least Texas' Senator is smart enough to know that this country needs a NATIONAL conversation on how WE are supporting 63+ percent of all NON-AMERICANS in this country, through benefits that should be reserved for Americans, and he is willing to put his name on a bill to FORCE that conversation.

And Texas' Senator is smart enough to know that if Americans start to digest the FACTS, as presented in this bill........they are going to view the present 10,000 caravan foreigners, in a different light, instead of sucking up the Liberal media's propaganda.

Texas' Senator is also smart enough to bet that Americans will be even more upset when they realize that today's 10,000 foreigners could be a million (or millions) of get a piece of the US welfare pie, in 2019, if we don't find a way to stop this.

So for all you non-Texan, Cruz bashers, who don't live in OK, SD, or LA..... I am patiently waiting to hear what YOUR illustrious state's Senator(s) said, or did, for America, this week about:

1 stopping the illegal alien invasion..............

2 getting foreigners off benefits meant for American citizens..........

3 how to fund THE WALL?

If the answer's zip, zilch, nada.....then why aren't you focused on cleaning up your own state, instead of crapping on other state's Senators?

And if you ARE from OK, SD, or LA, where's your disdain for Infoe, Rounds and Kennedy, who also sponsored this bill?

176 posted on 12/07/2018 7:30:46 PM PST by TXSearcher (Interesting times we live in...........)
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh, I support it all right. I don’t care who sponsored it. It’s just so late in the game. Nor to I hate the guts of: Ted Cruz, Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, John Kennedy from Louisiana, or Mike Rounds, a senator from South Dakota.

Pres. Trump’s $5 billion is way short. They should be requesting a full 25-30 billion dollars.


177 posted on 12/07/2018 7:40:37 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: TXSearcher; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

This proposal is really elegant, in how it takes money away from the incentives for illegal immigration, to pay for the deterrent. Kind of a twofer.

It is also elegant in how its effects dis-proportionally target the most undesirable of the illegal immigrants - criminals who can’t pass through ports of entry, and the unproductive/unskilled/lazy who become public charges.

Yet another elegant aspect is that the revenues continue in perpetuity, even after the wall costs are paid.

I don’t know, but I hope that this proposal is designed to pass the scoring criteria needed in the budgeting process, where new spending must be “offset” by other savings or revenue increases. If so, it could be an essential element of a coordinated GOP strategy - but maybe that is too much to hope for. In any event, it is a mighty solid proposal, in terms of being an effective measure to address the problem.

President Trump himself was recently promoting a similar argument, proposing that the wall funding could pay for itself in other cost avoidances - in a matter of months, because the costs of illegal immigration are so high.


178 posted on 12/07/2018 8:33:10 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

Uh, IIRC, all spending and appropriations bills originate in the House - not the Senate.


179 posted on 12/07/2018 9:15:41 PM PST by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: BeauBo
This proposal is really elegant, in how it takes money away from the incentives for illegal immigration, to pay for the deterrent. Kind of a twofer.

Yep

180 posted on 12/07/2018 9:21:33 PM PST by TXSearcher (Interesting times we live in...........)
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