UH OH: Rand Paul Says 10 Republicans to Vote Against Trump's Nat'l Border Emergency
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is just one.
But there will be at least nine other Republican Senators to vote against President Trump’s national emergency at the southern border.
Here are the details…
From The Hill:
Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) said Monday that “at least” ten of his fellow GOP senators are prepared to vote for a resolution blocking President Trump’s emergency declaration at the southern border.
“By my count, I’ve had at least 10 people coming up to me saying they will vote to disapprove on this,” Pauls told reporters, referring to GOP colleagues.
The comments came just days after Paul became the fourth GOP senator to announce he’d vote against Trump’s emergency declaration to fund a border wall. Paul’s announcement clinched a bipartisan majority in favor of blocking Trump’s declaration.
President Trump just can’t win.
Not with Democrats.
Not with many members of his own party, even.
Now, Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander is the latest to come out against 45’s national emergency declaration at the southern border.
From Politico:
Senate Republicans are offering a choice to President Donald Trump: Withdraw your national emergency declaration at the border or face a potential rebellion from the GOP.
The message was delivered clearly on Thursday by Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), part of an effort by senior Republicans to avoid a direct confrontation with Trump on the Senate floor.
In a much-anticipated floor speech, the retiring senator declined to state whether he will become the deciding vote to block the president’s maneuver. But he signaled broad opposition to the emergency declaration and sought to convince Trump that he has other ways to collect $5.7 billion for the border wall — the precise amount of money he demanded during the government shutdown fight.
Alexander noted, “He’s got sufficient funding without a national emergency, he can build a wall and avoid a dangerous precedent. That would change the voting situation if he we were to agree to do that.“
There are some things you just don’t say. Most of those things are lies.
Democrat Senator Jeff Merkley (OR) doesn’t understand.
According to Jeff, the Trump administration is “deliberately” hurting migrant children because it’s “part of political strategy.”
Merkley: “And we’re told that number is now 15,000 children. And think of that, 15,000 children in child prisons, Trump administration child prisons across America. And they are planning to add a couple more.“
“And so, this is — this system of locking children up behind the barbed wire…don’t call them anything other than child prisons or internment camps. That’s what’s going on here. And we’re told that there are children who have been here three, four, five, even six months long. And the trauma is being inflicted as part of a political strategy, to hurt children deliberately as part of a political strategy.“
A seven-year-old girl died at the southern border. She and her family were trying to sneak into the states.
The mainstream media has lambasted President Trump and his administration for her death.
https://twitter.com/jacobsoboroff/status/1073706103882436608?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1073706103882436608&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Fno-ice-is-not-to-blame-for-tragic-death-of-7-year-old-guatemalan-girl-and-the-media-is-lying-about-it%2F
Even Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer (NY) joined in, blaming border patrol agents for the death before the facts came out.
A 7-year-old girl should not be dying of dehydration and shock in Customs and Border Protection custody.
Secretary Nielsen and @DHSgov must be held accountable for Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin’s death. https://t.co/W1jMYJWc7Q
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) December 14, 2018
The MSM is not mentioning, though, that the girl hadn’t eaten or drank for days.
This is getting tiring. The clear implication here is that DHS did something wrong, but there is ZERO evidence of that so far. This is a real tragedy, but the little girl hadn’t eaten or drank anything for several days before she was taken into CBP custody. https://t.co/EQPzKP26oY
— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 15, 2018
You can argue that her dad had legit reasons for taking her on the dangerous journey from Guatemala and having her cross the border illegally, but that doesn’t change that it’s clear the journey is what caused her death.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 15, 2018
She was having seizures and had a 105 degree fever within a few hours of being in custody. She was taken into custody in a remote area. As soon as they got her to a border station w medical personnel, they got her medical treatment and airlifted her to a hospital.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 15, 2018
You can either blame the father for taking her on this journey or blame no one, but it’s despicable that the media is going out of their way to blame CBP when there is 0 evidence they did anything other than their jobs and try to save her life.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 15, 2018
I get it. The media has their narrative. They think the CBP are the bad guys for enforcing the law at the border and want every story to feed that message, but baselessly accusing them of being complicit in the death of a little girl is a new low for the media. https://t.co/4OD0TA6ElX
— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 15, 2018
Of course. And that's why there already is one that has been started, as happens every time someone dies in their custody. However, it's clearly wrong for the media to imply they are responsible without evidence of wrongdoing, and there is none so far. https://t.co/eP4n403FJ4
— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 15, 2018
What’s more is the girl’s father says border patrol could NOT have done a better job.
Talk about a narrative buster.
Guatemalan Consul Tekandi Paniagua tells CNN’s @edlavaCNN he met extensively with the father of 7-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin Friday night in El Paso. Paniagua says the father of Jakelin has “no complaints about how Border Patrol agents treated him and his daughter.” 1/
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 15, 2018
2/ The consul says the father told him that agents did everything they possibly could to help the girl on the bus.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 15, 2018
3/ The father, per the consul, confirmed the DHS timeline that Jakelin did not show any signs of distress until about 5am when they were placed on the bus to ride from the border checkpoint to the border patrol station 95 miles away.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 15, 2018