They say ‘wonders never cease’ — and I’d say the Republicans in the US Senate just proved it’s true.

Somehow that rogue group of grandstanders just passed the Trump-backed Immigration Enforcement legislation!

And possibly the biggest story-within-the-story…

They RESISTED push after push to eternally damn President Trump’s anti-weaponization fund in the process!

That one detail is already catching most of the headlines — with Democrats supremely focused on the fact that the Senate did not permanently hamstring the President’s fund.

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Check out this headline from the Associated Press just as an example:

The media is already treating the fact that ICE and Border Patrol are FUNDED AGAIN as a minor part of this story…

Compared to the audacity of Senate Republicans who dared NOT “limit” President Trump’s ability to continue fighting for the anti-weaponization fund.

Careful there, lamestream — your TDS is showing again!

I don’t tend to quote CNN as source material… except when their reporting is incredibly ironic, or when they’re forced to admit a victory for President Trump.

And then, I jump at the chance.

So here’s that otherwise sketchy media source to kick things off, unavoidably highlighting “another win for Trump” – as reported just a short time ago by CNN:

Senate Republicans overcame deep internal divisions to pass a massive $70 billion immigration enforcement package early Friday, delivering a major political win to President Donald Trump after weeks of struggling to pass the bill.

The bill – which funds ICE and border patrol through the rest of Trump’s term, protecting the agencies from future government shutdown fights – now goes to the House for final passage.

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In another win for Trump, Republicans ultimately approved the bill without new language rebuking him over his push for a $1.8 billion Justice Department fund to compensate people who claim to have been victimized by the federal government.

Senate Republicans rejected multiple efforts on Thursday to formally kill President Donald Trump’s push for a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who claim they were victimized by the government.

Before the vote was gaveled closed, the GOP’s push to pass the immigration enforcement bill stalled for hours – forcing the Senate to a halt as GOP leaders were in talks with a group of Republican holdouts who had been refusing to vote down the Democratic attempt to kill the Trump administration’s controversial “anti-weaponization fund.”

The group of GOP holdouts, which included GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, who recently lost his primary after public clashes with Trump, had been refusing to fall in line behind leadership. But Cassidy ultimately voted against the push from Democrats. (Emphasis added.)

Here’s the moment the Senate bill passed.

You can see appropriate high-fives on the Senate floor in this Fox News clip as the news broke a short time ago:

I am somewhat astounded that all the attempts to squash any future work on the President’s proposed anti-weaponization fund were thwarted.

Several attempts were made during the overnight Senate session to attach kill-language to the ICE / Border Patrol funding bill that would effectively shelve that fund for good.

Nothing like the possibility of paying restitution to those the government hounded unjustly to bring out the haters!

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Both Sen. Tillis’ and Cassidy’s attempts to kill what they fear might put money in the hands of J6ers failed to catch a ride on the immigration enforcement funding bill, according to the details reported by Fox News:

Passage of the budget reconciliation package geared toward funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol for the next three and a half years closes a long, drawn out chapter in the Senate that began during the longest shutdown in history.

“Democrats would not agree to anything, and eventually they walked away altogether, presumably because they thought that it would serve them better to have an issue for November,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said.

But the day, and preceding weeks, were dominated by a growing rift between Senate Republicans and the Trump administration that threatened to blow up the process altogether.

First, it was the inclusion of $1 billion in funding for security upgrades to Trump’s ballroom, which was later stripped out.

Then, it was the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) announcement that a nearly $2 billion “anti-weaponization” fund was being launched to allow people who felt targeted by the government to make a claim from the pot of taxpayer money.

Several Senate Republicans worried that the money could be accessed by Jan. 6, 2021, rioters who were convicted of assaulting police.

Ultimately, despite a dozen Republicans voting for Sen. Thom Tillis’, R-N.C., amendment, and several voting for Cassidy’s, all attempts to thwart future bids to revive the fund failed.

That bill now heads to the House.

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And unlike the Senate…

The House is expected to pass it without much controversy.

We’ll see how that goes next week — and we’ll keep you up-to-date on that situation as it unfolds.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

 

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