Pelosi and Schumer Side with Illegal Aliens Over 38.6 Million Food Stamp Recipients

Pelosi and Schumer Side with Illegal Aliens Over 38.6 Million Food Stamp Recipients to Block the Wall

January 5, 2019 Admin

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At the end of the month, food stamp benefits will run out for 38.6 million recipients on account of the partial government shutdown. Right now, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program is being funded with previously appropriated dollars, but in February that will change as the Department of Agriculture remains unfunded for Fiscal Year 2019.
It could be resolved in five minutes. But it won’t be because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) are siding with illegal aliens to block funding for the southern border wall.
Would they keep the border wide open so that drugs can be smuggled and gangs and human trafficking can run rampant rather than help needy families keep their children’s bellies full? Really?
Much of the crime brought on by illegal immigration disproportionately winds up in the very poorer communities that depend on food stamps.
We’re talking about 19.4 million households including 38.6 million individual recipients who receive $4.7 billion of SNAP benefits monthly.
There are also hundreds of thousands of federal workers who are going without pay for the duration of the shutdown. They have bills to pay, too.
Are Pelosi and Schumer willing to sacrifice them all on the altar of stopping the wall? It’s a choice, and it is their choice to make.
President Trump has already stated he won’t sign a spending bill that doesn’t fund the wall. Plus, he just issued the first veto threat of his presidency. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has rightly said he won’t be acting on legislation that won’t become law.
But even if McConnell did let it pass in the Senate, Congressional Republicans in the House and the Senate appeared poised to sustain any veto Trump might issue.
So, that’s it.
In 2013, Republicans learned they could not impose their will on the Democrat-controlled Senate and White House. Back then, a Republican-controlled House did not get to pass legislation that excluded funding for Obamacare and when the government shut down over the dispute, it was deemed the House’s fault.
Perhaps Pelosi and Schumer are gambling that President Donald Trump and Republicans will get the blame politically by the media, but really, it will be their fault for blocking the only legislation that can get signed.
Right now, Republicans control the Senate and the White House. Democrats cannot impose their will, either. This one lands at the feet of the House, too, going by the same standard set up in 2013. Elections have consequences.
Or they had better, or else we truly live in a bipolar world where one set of rules apply to Democrats and another to Republicans.
Right now, Democrats are hoping to split Republicans by voting to fund everything but the Department of Homeland Security. The White House has again issued a veto threat of any package of bills that excludes the wall. The President needs to stick to that — and address the nation in a primetime broadcast to explain the human costs and tragedies at the border and across the country involved with not building the southern border wall.
Because, none of this is necessary. There’s a very easy way for Pelosi and Schumer to get the government funded: Build the wall. And fully fund it now, so we don’t have to have the same dilemma again in September. Put the country first.
There is already almost 700 miles of barriers, fences and walls along the southern border anyway. What’s another 300 miles or so?

Every budget is a matter of priorities, after all.
Is enabling illegal immigration, drugs and human trafficking with open borders worth it to compel tens of millions of American citizens go without food and hundreds of thousands of federal workers to go without pay? That is for Pelosi and Schumer to decide. This one’s on them.
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Robert Romano is the Vice President of Public Policy at Americans for Limited Government.
Photo “Nancy Pelosi” by Nancy Pelosi.
Photo “Chuck Schumer” by Chuck Schumer.



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38 million? What happened to the other 11 million? There used to be 49 million people on food stamps.

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Keep the Government shut down so Pelosi and Schumer can’t send their daily billions to our
Foreign Enemies

Chuck & Nancy boasted they took an oath. To PREFER illegal aliens over US citizens & pretend we citizens DON'T exist???

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From what I have seen the immigrants recently come here with the idea of making quick money. Nearly all of them do. People at one time came here for land, then they came when we needed skilled tradesmen. Now they come----for quick money. I've run into my share of them.


Just why would we want that. I've run into immigrant broker-types that start doing things that are contrary to the regulations---but they don't care. They get run out of one salesman/broker job, and then they get a different one. I've run into Russians that milk you for what they can and then say a quick "God bless you." These Central American immigrants come up here to get free medical care and welfare for their kids.

Our society is just not the same. They are all dirtbags.

They're all con artists, all the illegal aliens are of criminal minds, that's why they're illegal aliens, can't follow the rules, can't abide the law, it's all about them at someone else's expense. BAD ILLEGAL ALIENS.

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Members of the military (Navy, Army, Air Force and Marine Corps) are getting regular pay because they are funded through the Department of Defense, whose 2019 fiscal appropriations were approved last September.

Look...these times are hard on everyone. I've developed some political advocacy as a sort of second career----and it pays nothing! You just have to do it. When I have spoken to the conservative elected officials I say that this is a difficult time to be a politician, so I hope they understand it upfront. We had one local state representative who after a couple of terms just bowed out to go back to her real estate profession. It's a very divisive time, especially for someone who just got into political office. And it is not only divisive on the national level, that is also true in so many localities because certain sectors have entrenched themselves and figured out how to milk the system. So trying to solve that takes an extra portion of dedication.

Additionally the conservative politicos don't seem to be as diehard as the liberal ones. Around here the political gulf is enormous---but I can see how a lot of younger generation just see their political involvement as the source of their life meaning. Nobody is really going to kick them out the movement if they don't live up to the highest expectations or to some membership agreement. So in that sense it is a very tolerant social movement---you can experience the air and excitement of it when you want, and bag it when you don't.

Maybe the US House would still have a GOP majority---but a bunch of them just chose to retire, losing the incumbent advantage in their districts. They were doing the conservative thing of looking out for Number One. But the liberal ones hang in there like it is some do-or-die cause for them. And the leadership has a death grip on things.

This is like having some 300 lb creep mug you in the alley. How do you get loose from him? The liberals have the upper hand and have had it for some time. I guess conservatives have to adopt their position as a religious view too.