The article explains one aspect of the budget negotiations in the Senate:<\/p>\n
Harry Reid<\/a> runs the Senate with an autocratic hand. One of his favorite tricks is called \u201cfilling the tree<\/a>.\u201d Reid will offer a series of amendments to legislation that \u201cfill the tree,\u201d making it impossible for any Republican amendments to be offered. In this way, Reid prevents Republicans from having any input into legislation and spares Democrats from having to vote against popular Republican initiatives.<\/strong><\/p>\n Today, Reid filled the amendment tree on the Ryan-Murray budget to foreclose further amendments. Sessions wanted to propose an amendment to the spending bill that would delete the veterans\u2019 benefit cuts and replace them by closing a loophole that allows illegal immigrants<\/a> to suck billions of dollars out of the treasury.<\/strong><\/p>\n So what is this loophole and how much does it cost? There is something called the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC)<\/a>. I have written about the ACTC before–rightwinggranny.com<\/a> and rightwinggranny.com<\/a>.\u00a0 A person does not need to have a social security number or pay income taxes in order to receive money under this program. This program is known to be a source of income for people who are in America<\/a> illegally.<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n According to a 2011 report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration<\/a>, millions of people without valid Social Security numbers<\/a> received a total of $4.2 billion in ACTC in 2010 \u2013 up from $924 million in 2005. The IRS is expected to issue some $7.4 billion in ACTC payouts this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article concludes:<\/p>\n In order to allow his amendment to be heard, Sessions offered a tabling amendment to get rid of the filled amendment tree. That would have cleared the way for his amendment to be voted on, but the Democrats closed ranks on behalf of illegal immigrants and defeated Sessions\u2019 motion on a nearly straight party line vote. The only Democrat to vote for the motion was Kay Hagan<\/a>, who is up for re-election next year and evidently didn\u2019t want to have to explain a \u201cno\u201d vote to her constituents.<\/strong><\/p>\n Prioritizing illegal aliens over military veterans: that tells you all you need to know about the Democratic Party<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n It is time to replace every current Congressmen who voted to defeat Jeff Sessions<\/a>‘ motion. It is a disgrace that Congress would give money to people who are in America illegally before they would honor the promise America made to its soldiers when those soldiers enlisted.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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