GOP Lawmakers Got Played: Details of Border Deal Shows Democrat Dream Agreement

Congressional negotiators announced on Monday night they have a border wall funding agreement they believe President Trump will sign into law.

The agreement was announced by a group of lawmakers led by Republican Sen. Richard Shelby and Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey, after a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill.

On Wednesday FOX News announced Democrats slipped a “poison pill” into the deal that will prevent the 55 miles of wall from being built.

But the agreement is even worse than what is being reported.

The areas Trump cannot build any wall.

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1095917486296494080

Funds can only be used to make steel bollard design… no concrete wall, no prototypes. Same thing as what Bush and Obama built… just a little bit taller.

VOTE: Are You Still In Favor Of The Border Wall?

The bill secures more than $3.1 billion in foreign health services, more than twice for the wall.

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1095921161307852800

Sec. of DHS cannot increase border crossing fees.

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1095921685532999682

Border “Wall” construction is only allowed in the Rio Grande Valley Sector.

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1095922442457952256

The bill DOES expand Catch and Release by reducing the number of border beds from 49,060 to 40,520.

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1095923565596168192

No funding for additional enforcement and removal field personnel. – that means no more ICE agents to deport people already in the country.

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1095923929024266240

Expands the Alternatives to Detention program from 82,000 to 100,000… so instead of housing family units at the border- they get moved into the interior where they almost always stay in the country permanently.

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1095924345099206656

Provides $40 million for additional ICE staffing dedicated to overall ATD case management, particularly for asylum seekers… so no new ICE agents, but money to ICE to help illegal aliens settle in a non-detention center in the country.

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1095924568429158400

$3.4 billion in refugee assistance – $74 million more than last year
$4.4 billion in international disaster assistance – $100 million more than last year

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1095926153708228608

Does not eliminate any foundations that Trump wanted to get rid of including: The Asia Foundation, the U.S. African Development Foundation, the Inter-American Foundation, and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1095926233790066689

Once again the Republicans in Congress got outplayed.

VOTE: Are You Still In Favor Of The Border Wall?

At this point it should be clear that the GOP may be playing for the other side.

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