House Rejects Senate Deal
Plus: JD Vance Affirms That Ilhan "Omar" Committed Immigration Fraud, Vows to Pursue Her Legally

So. Now that the Senate Republicans made a deal without bothering to clear it with their counterparts in the House, the House Republicans have rejected it, and now begins the "It's a Republican shut-down, they're enabling terrorism" op.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., says House Republicans will not accept a Senate-passed bill to fund the majority of the Department of Homeland Security, minus ICE and border patrol.

The Senate bill does not include additional funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Border Patrol -- and it does not include any of the demands Democrats made to limit the tactics of federal immigration officers. Republicans in the House met Friday after the legislation passed and rejected the plan.

"This gambit that was done last night is a joke," Johnson told reporters at the Capitol.

Johnson said the House will vote instead on a stop-gap spending bill to fund the entire Department of Homeland Security until May 22.

"I spoke to the president a few moments ago, he understands exactly what we're doing and why. And he supports it," Johnson said.

Johnson said he expects Republicans will pass the bill in the House, leaving the Senate to take up the measure. However, is very unclear if the stop-gap could pass in the Senate. Senators have already left Washington and Democrats have refused to vote for any spending bill that funds ICE.

Johnson also referred to Trump's promise to pay TSA agents through executive action as a near-term way to alleviate backups at airports across the country. Trump signed a memo Friday, to do so.

Is he right to reject it?

Overton @overton_news

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Mask off moment.

Speaker Mike Johnson QUESTIONS whether Senate Republicans actually read the bill they passed to the House before heading on recess.

Johnson then turned to the cameras and read a jaw-dropping section aloud for the media.

JOHNSON: "This gambit that was done last night is a JOKE."

"I'm quite convinced that it can't be that every Senate Republican read the language of this bill, and I'm going to just read you one excerpt of it, because it's pretty alarming, and it says everything that you need to know."

"In section four...this is on page two of the bill...."

"It says, 'The contents printed under the headings of this bill, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and border security operations under the heading of US Customs and Border Patrol and Protection shall have no force or effect for purposes of this act and amounts specified in the final bill under the subheading border security operation, and under the heading U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and under the headings of US Immigration and Customs enforcement, in the Department of Homeland Security shall be...ZERO.'"

"We're not doing that."

I don't know if that means the additional funding that had previously been in the bill is reduced to zero, or if it means all the funding these agencies currently have is reduced to zero. I suspect it means the former, not the latter. That is, it stops the new funding, which I don't like but which we already knew, not the already-in-place funding.

But I'd like clarification.

In more fulfilling news: As you know, Vance was appointed by Trump to be the country's fraud investigation tsar. The left scoffed at this claiming it was a fake appointment because, you see, there is no widespread welfare and medicaid fraud in America, and so this was a time-wasting assignment designed to humble and punish Vance.

In reality, of course, it's just about the greatest prize a Republican politician should want.

He will use his position, he says, to investigate Ilhan "Omar," proclaiming she "definitely committed immigration fraud."

This is regarding her fake-marrying her gay brother to give him a fraudulent immigration status in the US, not about she herself being added to another person's family to commit immigration fraud. (That is, she came in pretending to be a member of a family which had an immigration approval.)

Vice President JD Vance said Friday that Rep. Ilhan Omar defrauded the US by allegedly marrying her brother to help him remain legally in the country.

"We actually think that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America," Vance told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on the latest episode of his show.

Vance added that he's been discussing legal remedies with White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, explaining that questions have been raised: "How do you go after her? How do you investigate her? How do you actually build the case to actually get some justice for the American people?"

The vice president claimed the Minnesota Democrat "has been at the center of a lot of the worst fraudsters in the Somalian community" -- and that was also something that should be under investigation.

I missed this, or forgot about this, but Trump actually directed Vance to investigate this on March 15.

Bonus:

Paul Sperry @paulsperry_

BREAKING: The late Special Counsel Robert Mueller allegedly had Special FBI Agent Vivien Moon "removed" from his Russiagate investigative team because "she would not allow the investigation [against Trump and his advisers] to become politicized," according to a newly declassified internal FBI memo

Another Bonus:

Yet another Bonus: Al Gore said his predictions that the world would be underwater by 2011 were all 100% correct and a Glug-Glug Day to You, Fellow Fishoid!

(He says this to the Bulwark's most openly gay Democrat propagandist, Tim Miller. They're mostly closeted over there.)

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:10 PM

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