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Warren bill would divert $10B in Trump border wall funds to fight coronavirus
2020-02-29
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
proposed diverting billions of dollars of funding for President Trump's border wall to government efforts to respond to the coronavirus.
She's flailing
Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, introduced the Prioritizing Pandemic Prevention Act on Thursday to require that approximately $10 billion be redirected from fence projects along the U.S.-Mexico border to the Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Agency for International Development to make up for the money Congress will spend preparing for and responding to the virus.

"The coronavirus outbreak poses serious health, diplomatic, and economic threats to the United States, and we must be prepared to confront it head-on," Warren said in a statement. "Rather than use taxpayer dollars to pay for a monument to hate and division, my bill will help ensure that the federal government has the resources it needs to adequately respond to this emergency."

The loss of $10 billion would wipe out more than half of the White House's wall coffers, which sit at $18 billion ‐ pending Trump getting the $2 billion requested from Congress in fiscal 2021 and taking $3.8 billion from defense counternarcotic funding, as planned.

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Posted by:Fred

#19   U.S. Agency for International Development

Now if that doesn't sound like a congressional slush fund I don't know what does.

Trump should transfer it to DSHS which, in turn, use it to build a wall as a defense against the virus coming over from Mexico...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2020-02-29 12:36  

#18  While I think we should treat plagues as national defense issues, I don't believe this is her motivation. She has earned the right to be disbelieved by default.
Posted by: james   2020-02-29 11:49  

#17  * other explanation
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-29 11:44  

#16  They're trying to lose. Really. No ither explabation.
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-29 11:43  

#15  Turn coronavirus loose in a Third World shit hole like Mexico and then open the border. Right. As if tuberculosis, fentanyl and methamphetamine aren't bad enough. Hopefully after Tuesday it will be crystal clear to Fauxcahontas and her misguided contributors that she cannot win and we shall have heard the last of her.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-02-29 11:39  

#14  And by "fighting Coronavirus" no doubt she means "funding transgender midnight basketball."
Posted by: Iblis   2020-02-29 11:37  

#13  ''tis the Shitshow, lads
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-29 09:25  

#12  ^Very right. To me they're like manifestations of classic descriptions of certain people in the Bible. Jezebel, Nimrod, Achan, Herod, herodias...
Posted by: Dron66046   2020-02-29 09:09  

#11  I can't help it, but these days my disgust with the Left has reached rage levels as I have decided that these scum sucking weasles are not naive or stupid or dumb or ignorant they are just pure evil.

Posted by: AlanC   2020-02-29 09:00  

#10  Mexico Confirms Second Case of Coronavirus
Posted by: Frank G   2020-02-29 08:22  

#9  When they say stuff this stupid do you think they WANT TO LOSE in 2020?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-02-29 07:57  

#8  Oh yeah, open borders to solve the pan-epidemic threat. YJCMTSU
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-02-29 07:09  

#7  We have spent over a half-century funding the monster. What could have possibly gone wrong.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-02-29 06:40  

#6  Would be fun to see anti-US response to a B-2 strike on Wuhan.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-02-29 06:35  

#5  The money would arrive 2 years after the media panic dies. Given it probably took Chinese biowar lab 7-15 years to create coronavirus, we have late money chasing later problem.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-02-29 06:33  

#4  In case there might have been any lingering questions why Soetoro picked this fellow as his running mate and VP.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-02-29 05:38  

#3  "And we must ban Corona beer too."

Posted by: Dron66046   2020-02-29 03:58  

#2  Her suggestion is stupid only if you assume that she gives a f*ck about anything but gaining power - a stupid assumption.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-02-29 03:52  

#1  F---ing moron. She's as stupid as she is mendacious.
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-29 03:04  

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