Pelosi Accuses Trump of 'Stealing' Relief Funds

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Fiscal Times

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the Trump administration’s effort to shift $271 million within the Department of Homeland Security to support activities at the border is a “brazen assault” on the congressional power of the purse.

In a statement Wednesday, Pelosi urged the administration to reconsider its decision to reprogram the funds, which were originally appropriated for Federal Emergency Management Agency relief funds and the Coast Guard.

“Stealing from appropriated funds is always unacceptable, but to pick the pockets of disaster relief funding in order to fund an appalling, inhumane family incarceration plan is staggering,” Pelosi said, adding that “to do so on the eve of hurricane season is stunningly reckless.”

While Pelosi and other Democratic leaders expressed outrage at the Trump administration’s move, the Associated Press noted that “t is not uncommon for unassigned funds to be transferred between agencies under the same department as the fiscal year ends.” Last year, roughly $10 million was shifted from FEMA to other uses, AP said, in a move that drew “major criticism from Democrats.”



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[MBS]

1. Nancy is correct. n/t

[SCantiGOP]

17. Why don't they do something about it?

Can’t they get this I to a court?

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Everything's being stolen, but there's no enforcement

[paleotn]

12. That's what happens when they've co-opted law enforcement.

In this case the justice department by Jabba the Barr.

[sprinkleeninow]

3. What ACTION will be taken? What in tarnation will be DONE about this?

[ehrnst]

21. OK. What actions - specifically - can be taken? What are you looking for

in the way of action, and from whom?

[sprinkleeninow]

28. Oy. Other replies here I yam on the same page with.

'Being outraged coupled with strongly worded messages, as 'they' say.' 🙄

Impeach the s-o-b already.

[ehrnst]

34. So, tell us, how will impeachment "stop" him? (nt)

[sprinkleeninow]

35. It's available as a means by which to assist in messing him up.

It'll put a dent in his 'momentum'.

I am not one to seek vengeance but have come to the point of enough is enough.

Simply giving my sentiment/my stance on this at this time. Not wishing contention.

Oh, but wait for the GE. We'll see...

[ehrnst]

36. "It'll put a dent in his 'momentum'. "Messing him up" ???

What does that even mean? How does it even slow him down?

You think that those who are still with him will ever believe anything about him that doesn't confirm their bias?

Seriously - what does that mean in actual, real life terms? Keep him from tweeting? Stop him from from holding rallies? Stop him from doing what Stephen Miller tells him to do? Rather than make him react like a cornered animal, like we know he does, and lash out even more?

When one demands something, it makes one more credible to demand something that is actually concrete and specific.

What is it that you actually expect impeachment to do?

[Newest Reality]

4. Talk is cheap!

Actions speak louder than words.

Some old truisms still apply. What will be done about it?

[notdarkyet]

6. Cut the money out of golf money. He wants to play games.

[ehrnst]

39. What do you want to see happen, specifically? (nt)

[LanternWaste]

43. Is talk more or less cheap than posting bumper-stickers on a message board?

Old truisms, indeed.

[HiloHatti]

5. Gee, if There Was Only Someone Who Could Reign Trump In

With actions replacing words.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. Who will bell the cat?

Or more accurately, "Who will belt the fat?"

[ehrnst]

22. So, what actions are there that could "reign him in"?

and who would be authorized to initiate those actions?

[LonePirate]

7. If she truly believed that, she would publicly support and initiate impeachment proceedings.

Should Americans believe what she says when she will not use the Constitutional powers granted to her to address the problem?

[mahannah]

9. Pelosi needs to do more.

[pnwmom]

18. She is. Step by step she's building a case toward impeachment. n/t

[ehrnst]

23. What specifically?

[Autumn]

10. There's a remedy for that. It's called impeachment.

Bug the shit out of the fucking loon.

[ehrnst]

19. How will impeachment "remedy" this?

How does it stop him from doing this?

[sprinkleeninow]

29. Yah, put flies in his ointment! Dammmm this all. eom

[Autumn]

31. Keep at him like a fucking wasp. Make him crazy.

[sprinkleeninow]

33. "What goes around..."

Bug the everlovin' 'hovno' outta him.
Plenty in there. 💩
[Slovak for s**t.]

[ehrnst]

37. Yes, because if there's ANYTHING we want is him to be MORE unhinged.

Reichstag Fire anyone? More incindiary rhetoric to whip up his base, and perhaps more mass shootings?

Sounds like a GREAT idea.


You think that Pence will suddenly say, "Gee, I think that we need to invoke the 25th amendment. What do you say, Cabinet?"

[ehrnst]

38. And what does that accomplish, exactly?

Stop him from tweeting?

Shorten his time in office?

[Kurt V.]

13. itmf

[djacq]

14. Am I missing something here? Stealing is a crime.

Hello Speaker!

Impeachment!

[ehrnst]

40. What does impeachment accomplish, exactly?

Other than trigger him into behaving like a cornered animal?

What is it you think that the DOJ will actually do in response to an impeachment? Do you know who the AG is?

[Skittles]

15. so tired of her accusations with zero followup

[ehrnst]

20. Examples? (nt)

[Scarsdale]

16. How about taking back

some of that $100 MILLION that Ivanka was given, to promote women in business overseas? She was travelling this week to promote the idea, yet there have been no photos, no reports. Did she just pocket the entire sum??

[ehrnst]

41. What's the process to do this? (nt)

[Stuart G]

24. K and R nt.

[Stuart G]

25. Perhaps this is the "Grounds for Impeachment" that we are looking for.

Last edited Thu Aug 29, 2019, 08:26 PM - Edit history (1)

...Please give Pelosi time to start. This will get very ugly very quickly. Nevertheless, these moves are against the law


This could be it, Pelosi said:

“Stealing from appropriated funds is always unacceptable, but to pick the pockets of disaster relief funding in order to fund an appalling, inhumane family incarceration plan is staggering,” Pelosi said, adding that “to do so on the eve of hurricane season is stunningly reckless.” .

[sprinkleeninow]

30. ".... very ugly, very quickly....". Good. BRING IT!! eom

[ehrnst]

42. OK. So how does impeachment stop him?

Are you familiar with who the AG is?

What do you think will actually be accomplished by impeachment proceedings? You think his fans will suddenly say, after all this time, "Well look at that! Those Democrats were right, and I was wrong!!"

[duforsure]

26. I've thought all along his scheme is to funnel the wall money, billions

laundering it to putin to pay him for his debts and his services he's provided,, and will provide for him for upcoming events. That is maybe why he's so desperate to get it going, to pay putin and his russian mafia boss. Its not about his promise to build it I don't think.

[kysrsoze]

27. This will blow up in his assface when Dorian makes landfall.

We’ll see what FL voters think of it.

[sprinkleeninow]

32. I'm not in FLA but stressed for the people there, esp. DUers.

Y'all in my heart of hearts, and YES also in my prayerful intercessions.