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Office of Public Affairs via Wikimedia CommonsHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s $3 trillion coronavirus relief package — ironically called the HEROES Act — is one for the record books.
In no way, shape or form should that statement be misconstrued as a compliment.
From giving protection to illegal immigrants “engaged in essential critical infrastructure labor or services in the United States” to dolling out millions to the National Endowment for the Arts, it’s no surprise that Pelosi’s minions crafted the bill with no Republican input.
Here are the worst surprises:
Not-So-Subtle Amnesty
CBP Photography via Wikimedia CommonsAn excerpt on page 1,737 of the labyrinthine bill details “temporary protections for essential critical infrastructure workers,” which sounds reasonable. However, it applies to illegal immigrants deemed “critical infrastructure workers.” Pelosi’s pipe dream, ahem, excuse me — transformative legislation — would grant protections to employers who hired said illegal workers.
Is it really a good idea to not only grant an amnesty to illegal aliens but to absolve employers who have been breaking the law in the last few months? I don’t think so! pic.twitter.com/mak6nHzwiV
— Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli (@HomelandKen) May 13, 2020
Is it really a good idea to not only grant an amnesty to illegal aliens but to absolve employers who have been breaking the law in the last few months? I don’t think so! pic.twitter.com/mak6nHzwiV
— Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli (@HomelandKen) May 13, 2020
That’s not the only portion of Pelosi’s bill that thumbs its nose at federal immigration authorities.
Stimulus Checks for EVERYONE
Flying Logos via Wikimedia CommonsThe proposed relief package expands the pool of stimulus check recipients by including individuals who file with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) instead of restricting government assistance to those that registered with a Social Security number.
If enacted, such a change would make illegal immigrants eligible for the next round of stimulus checks.
Get Out of Jail Free Card for Illegal Immigrant Felons
Police via Wikimedia CommonsPelosi’s plan also allows for the release of prisoners from federal penitentiaries and county jails as well as detainees at immigration detention facilities, provided a judge deems them “non-violent.”
Of course, judges aren’t infallible. Moreover, violent criminals often agree to plea deals to avoid trial — plea deals, which often mask the true nature of their crimes.
What’s lost on, or simply ignored by, Democrats is a 2018 annual report by the United States Sentencing Commission showing that a whopping 97 percent of federal convicts accepted plea deals rather than risk being found guilty of more serious crimes.
A summary of this portion about illegal immigrants reads:
This section requires DHS to review the immigration files of all individuals in the custody of ICE to assess the need for continued detention. Individuals who are not subject to mandatory detention shall be prioritized for release, either on recognizance or into an alternative to detention program, unless the individual is a threat to public safety or national security. [Emphasis added]
Mandatory Masks for Thee, But Not for Me
https://www.vperemen.com via Wikimedia CommonsThe threat of coronavirus (COVID-19) is real, but it shouldn’t dilute people’s right to make their own choices.
While wearing masks provides tangible benefits, especially in slowing the virus’ proliferation in hotspots, that doesn’t mean doing so should be mandated. At the moment, members of Congress aren’t being compelled to wear masks. But that hasn’t stopped the sincere tyranny of congressional Democrats from rearing its ugly head.
Pelosi’s party now wants everyone riding Amtrak trains to don cloth face coverings, whether they are employees or passengers.
More Public Funding for the Arts
Farragutful via Wikimedia CommonsThe first CARES stimulus package contained $25 million for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to weather the coronavirus economy. Despite the influx of taxpayer monies, reporting from RealClearPolitics found that the Kennedy Center still plans to furlough more than half of its full-time employees.
At the time President Trump signed the CARES Act into law, the Kennedy Center had already laid off 725 workers, including the National Symphony Orchestra.
NEW: According to internal discussions and documents obtained by RCP, the Kennedy Center intends to furlough 60% of their full time staff.
Furloughs are expected on a rolling basis
This after already furloughing 725 part time staff and accepting $25 million in federal relief.
— Philip Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) March 31, 2020
Despite the poor optics, Democrats are doubling down on their commitment to frivolous spending (not that Republicans are angels, either). But in this instance, House Democrats allocated an additional $10 million for the National Endowment for the Arts and $10 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Combined, those groups received $75 million in taxpayer-funded relief in the first iteration of the coronavirus stimulus.
Rewriting the Trump Tax Plan
Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia CommonsThe HEROES Act calls for a two-year elimination of the cap on deducting state and local taxes (SALT) from federal tax returns through 2021. The SALT deduction helps ease the burden of living in high cost, high tax states like California while increasing the total burden of the federal budget sitting on the shoulders of low tax and no tax states like South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee and Florida. Without a cap, red-state residents will have to subsidize the lifestyles of their blue-state counterparts increasingly.
A Republican Congress and President Donald Trump capped the SALT deduction in the 2017 Tax Cut and Job Acts.
It appears that Pelosi wants to make it easier to repeal the Tax Cut and Job Acts should Biden win the presidency and Democrats regain the majority in the Senate.
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The reality is Drunken Nancy Pelosi will most likely die in the not too distant future. She doesn’t give a damn about the debt she straddles everyone else with. She is nothing but a miserable old drunk who won’t be happy until everyone else is as miserable as she is. We all know people just like her.
Damn she’s as crazy as Biden so please stop her.
House Speaker Pelosi has demonstrated time an time again her failure to support “We the People”. I believe Speaker Pelosi is an enemy of the State. She has refused to accept the will of the American People and has rejected our voice and vote for duly elected President Donald J. Trump. Ms. Pelosi has a troubling background of repeated violations of the law as she stands proudly on the side of lawlessness. She has continued to undermine this nation in her egregious acts and hypocritical alignment to Communism, Socialism, Marxism, NWO Globalism, and has recklessly continued to destroy and disgrace this Republic as well as her own Democratic Party. House Speaker Pelosi must be fired or resign from office, as she is a continual woeful reproach to this nation and clearly Anti-American as she seeks demise of “We the People” and destruction of the Constitution of The United States of America., including our U.S sovereignty, despising our Founding Father’s vision of “One Nation Under God, to become a nation to represent light unto the world. The Democratic Party under the leadership of House Speaker Pelosi has failed the American people and have clearly lost their way as they push for Tyranny to reign against “We the People” with their obstruction and spirit of hatefulness that produces a climate of hate, fear mongering, greed, malice, a rising police state, and evil propaganda to deceive this nation, and the next generation. NO THANK YOU, Speaker Pelosi, you have done enough damage to this nation.
JUST SAY NO!! We’re already $25 trillion in debt and can’t afford to be frivilous at this time. We need common sense and logic, not greed and self service. Nancy has lost her way in the past 3 years. It was painful to watch, but she has to be stopped now.
Ten thumbs up – MaligNANCY is an evil tumor on our nation, spending money she does not have and personally benefiting from elimination of SALT cap.
Write the President and let him know you want him to veto this vile Bill! That is the only way this will ever be rejected!
Treason. That is what it is when Pelosi desires to bankrupt our nation with massive deficit spending. Who is she working for? I got a check the first time as did my wife. We have been retired for over 10 years and have not suffered from financial loss from corona. So why did they give me a check??? Simple. The need to SPEND, SPEND, SPEND in order to destroy our dollar and our economy. Massive inflation is coming. And Pelosi is the cause.
The Pig is at it again. Send her packing. A vote for a democrat is a vote for suicide, slavery, and is simply irresponsible. Beware the Eyes of Evil. In November vote Republican. Vote for God, Conservatives, and Patriots. Say no to the would be slave masters!
She needs to GO! Along with Schumer, Schiff, Nadler, Waters, The Squad and all the left wing congress liars. We the people need to be running our country as the constitution says. Vote RED all the way. RED= REMOVE EVERY DEMOCRAT!!!!!!!
The ONE THING WE CANNOT DO is keep shut down. We must reopen as quickly as possible. The cost in lives will be no greater than the total ruin of our Country and the loss of life that will cause. We must not give in to nancy. We can’t afford her and her squad of criminals any longer. She needs to be booted physically out the door. She is a wicked, evil person who needs to be removed from office NOW. I think the people need to start law suits against her by the dozens. Give her something else to think of!
All pelosi schumer and the dems are doing is buying votes, most of will end up in pelosi’s bank account.
Republicans in the US House of Representatives must feel like they are working in an insane asylum. The Congressional Democrats have authored many stupid bills in the past, but this one takes the cake. Although Pelosi and her cohorts (Schiff, Nadler, Waters, etc.) promote this bill as a way to help fight and protect the people from the coronavirus pandemic, it is nothing but a feeble attempt to convert the country to a socialist economy where the government flunkies decide how much of our own money we are allowed to keep and when and where we can spend it. Just because it supposedly gives citizens an additional stimulus check the bill would also include illegal immigrants in the giveaway and Senators should reject the bill outright. Also, billions of dollars would be wasted on items having nothing to do with solving the coronavirus problem. If our Senators are so stupid as to approve this bill, I trust President Trump will break out his veto pen immediately and put a stop to this insanity.
The worst part of the plan is the push for mail-in voting and ballot harvesting, which will guarantee Democrat victories from now on in every close election going forward.
anything the democrats fight for we all know is against our country and ‘we the people’. to them, power is a drug and there is zero consideration for those of us that have a harder life. there’s a word for this type … psychopaths. no conscience, narcissistic and selfish.
vote by mail is their way of stealing the election like they tried to do in 2016, but karma stinks, democrats. the chickens are coming home to roost, hopefully. it’s damn shame it took so long when i knew this from the first day in 2008 … evil agenda.
It is clearly obvious that the NWO Globalist Agenda will stop at nothing to achieve their “Pinky and the Brain on steroids”, pipe dream of the Elite “ruling the world of peasants”. Average every day Americans mean nothing to her or any of the other so called Globalists. We are merely in the way and if we get hurt as “collateral damage” in their greedy and abhorrent fight to the top, well, the end justifies the means to their warped train of thought. While they jetset around the world in their private jets and enjoy their lives, they keep telling us to wear masks, stay home, not enough food, price increase…..what a bunch of BS. Just who do they think they are. We Americans and our tax dollars and hard earned income made them who they are today. Those selfish, power hungry, greedy, self-righteous Schmucks need to wake up and smell the coffee. Things are about to get pretty hot and heavy on the corruption, lies and deception that has been going on now for only God knows how long. Therefore, it is appropriate for me to say, that the God we Americans trust, knows all and sees all. He is True and Just. He knows everything about Who has done What and because of who He is, He will not allow this to go on much longer. Those monsters and their foolish ideologies have poisoned the hearts and minds of many good people. It’s time for them to pay. Always remember, Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18. Their days are numbered, it’s just a matter of time!
Crafted by those Dem housers that don’t care about us citizens , this will tank our economy in the same way that the ***** and Russkis tried to dilute our economy by printing counterfeit United States currency in earlier times. Are they to be classed as Socialistic too? I bet they ARE!
Another TROJAN DONKEY bill from Komrade Nancy- looks good on the outside, but filled with dangerous socialistik poisons. If they implement Cheat-by -mail, they should expect real patriots to respond by voting with their 2nd amendment rights. Team America is ready to come for Alec and the Film Actors Guild, but this time they will.not be just puppets in a movie.
MAGA 2020! ***K YEAH!
Nancy has gone batsh-t crazy and the answer is NO. No amnesty and No to a check. If they want the privileges that we are receiving they need to come the right way.
the only voting by mail needs to stay the same as always, for people at are sick and the people that won’t be in town the day of the election. There is early voting at the Board of Elections, if you don’t want to be involved in a crowd.
i HAVE TO SAY TO PIGLOSE _h e l l no – !!!!!!!!! TO YOUR CROOKED PLAN.
As far as money to States like Calimexico, I have a solution take all the assets from Pelosi Family, Newsom family, Brown Family, Geti family, Freinstain Family and repaid the state for ruin it. Also. 26 billion??? most likely way more $ that cost state for illegals. NO MORE MONEY EVEN 1 PENNY. Stop stupid projects like train to nowhere that 1 mile of tracks so far cost 70 billion $. It is appalling that they ruin 7 largest economy in a world and have guts to ask other states for bailout. It is like ask Bangladesh to bailout Germany, because complete idiots have to clue to run a lemon stand.
President Trump, delete all lines you don’t like in Pelosi’s new 3 trillion dollar bill. Wach Pelosi have a kicking screaming fit, then advise her that political blackmail like ALL blackmail, is a felony.
This “COVID Relief Bill” has little to do with COVID.